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Re: strange reboot on woody



Le 12386ième jour après Epoch,
Andrew Pollock écrivait:

> On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:51:45AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
>> Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> > BTW: i recommend you disable CAD :)
>> I would but that is the only way I can let them safely reboot the machine
>> (If I'll need them to) without giving the root password (although I know
>> that it only take a few seconds to reboot from CD and change it.
>
> Possibly a better alternative is providing them with an account and allowing
> them access to reboot/halt/shutdown with sudo?

Or create an account (boot), with a local access only, and
"/sbin/shutdown -r now" as shell ... and disable Ctrl-Alt-Del key 

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