Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 09:46:18 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> To: hw <hw@gc-24.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto allow anyone to poweroff? Message-ID: <20190808094618.787a7422.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> In-Reply-To: <20190807183735.f4a87306c851426be6b799ca@gc-24.de> References: <20190807183735.f4a87306c851426be6b799ca@gc-24.de>
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Hi, On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 18:37:35 +0200 hw <hw@gc-24.de> wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to allow ordinary users to poweroff a machine? I'd > like to automatically poweroff PXE booted clients once the user that > was logged in logs out after using it. an unconventional way would be to have a cron job checking if someone is locked in an power off the machine if none is logged in. You do not have problems with the access rights but might run into the problem that the machine shutsdown when somebody just has arrived at the machine. You also can catch the logout event and shut the machine down then. It is the problem with the access right again. Erich
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