Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:57:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Nils Holland <nils@nightcastleproductions.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Letting normal users halt the system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005301548470.184-100000@tempest.ncptiddische.net>
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Well, I wonder about the following thing: Normally, only root can halt and reboot a machine using commands like shutdown, halt and reboot. This is surely clever. But what can be done if I explictly want normal users be able to reboot/halt the system? One possibility that comes to my mind is to compile the kernel so that CTRL+ALT+DEL is interpreted as system-reboot ( I generally disable this, but if it's turned on, users could press these keys and after the system is halted and the reboot-process starts they could turn it of). Now I'm wondering if there's some place in which I can set the system up so that also the halt, reboot and shutdown commands work for normal users. While this surely shouldn't be done on a server in which many people log in ( that shouldn't be rebootable / haltable by everyone), it would be good if it worked on one of my computers which is normally being turned on and off by users as needed. See ya, Nils To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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