Re: Halt / Reboot: other user
In article <39FC3F1D.53259A6D@coli.uni-sb.de>,
Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pad=F3?= <pado@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I run xdm as my x login manager and I would like to
>be able to reboot and halt from it (like kdm allows it).
>
>My idea was as follows: I created two new users, reboot
>and halt, whose .xsession only contained
>"/sbin/shutdown -r -a now" and "/sbin/shutdown -h -a now"
>respectively.
>I also created the file /etc/shutdown.allow with both
>users in it, as described in the shutdown man page.
You misread the shutdown manual page. That is absolutely not
what the /etc/shutdown.allow file is for.
>Is there a more, say, canonical way of achieving what I want?
>Can I modify the .xsession in a particular way?
Install and configure 'sudo' so that your halt and shutdown
users can call shutdown as root.
Mike.
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