Re: turning off computer

["Boris D. Beletsky" <borik@isracom.co.il>]

>>>>>>>> On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, I wrote:

 I> Is there a way for a user without root priveleges to cleanly
 I> unmount the root file system and shutdown the computer?
 I>
 I> I've been running 'init 0' as root before turning off the box, but
 I> I don't want to have to give out the root password to my family
 I> (it's bad enough that I know it!) just so they can turn the thing
 I> off when I'm not around. We'd rather not leave it on when it is
 I> not in use.
 I>
 I> Thanks, Rikki

Well, the easiest is to write a script and chmod 6755 it.
consider /usr/local/bin/down to be this script:
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#!/bin/sh
# that is a better way imho to shutdown a computer
/sbin/shutdown -t1 -r now
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now:
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$ chmod 6755 /usr/local/bin/down
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borik

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Boris D. Beletsky                          borik@isracom.co.il
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Hebrew University                          borik@debian.org
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