Re: clean shutdown
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, David B Wilson wrote:
> Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
> (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.)
David,
You can do a clean shutdown as a non-root user if you have planned
for it as root. You can set Control-Alt-Del up to do a shutdown. My
Debian system came up that way when I installed. I think they all do.
However, my system at work has this in /etc/inittab:
# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
#ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -r now
Some administrator here is paranoid.
So look in /etc/inittab and if that line is commented, uncomment it,
then you can have a reasonably safe shutdown as non-root.
David
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