Re: Summary: logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user, gnome logout button?
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 07:58:17PM -0500, Joe Bouchard wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > - I want to enable my family to use Linux instead of the other
> > OS. Therefore it is important that they can start the computer, run
> > it and shut down in a CONTROLLED way. Restart/shutdown are menu
> > entries in the other OS!!
>
> Can you teach your kids to type "sudo reboot"? (I don't mean that
> sarcastically, I have kids too . . .) You may even be able to put it in
> a menu item.
I believe Debian supports the ctrl-alt-del key sequence for shutdown.
You might have to enable it in /etc/inittab. The line looks like:
# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
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