Re: Shutting down as a user
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:27:06PM +0000, Victor wrote:
> Of course it works but it reboots the system, doesn't shut it down. That's what I want.
take a look at /etc/inittab and search for 'shutdown' (preceded by some
comment about ctrl-alt-del). There you can change the arguments to shutdown,
i.e. replace '-r' (=reboot) by '-h' (=halt).
> On Friday 27 April 2001 08:26, Sebastiaan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > does an ordinary ctrl+alt+delete not work?
> >
> > Greetz,
> > Sebastiaan
> >
> > On 27 Apr 2001 vdemart@supereva.it wrote:
> > > Using debian on a stand-alone laptop I usually work as an ordinary user
> > > and find somewhat awkward the fact that I have to su in order to shutdown
> > > the PC. Is there a way to power my PC off as a user?
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