Re: turning off computer

[Paul McDermott <paul@braille.uwo.ca>]

The easiest way to have a shutdown command that the other members of your 
family can use with out giving the root password out is this:
Step #1 - create a shutdown user and password ( you don't have to put the 
          password in if you don't want to )
step #2 - change the field right after the password field (I think it is 
          called the group field to 0 which is root access)
step #3 - edit the .bash_profile to execute the shutdown command (ie in 
	  /sbin/shutdown -h now)
I hope this helps.
Paul McDermott

 On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote:

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