On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 12:25:47PM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:33:28PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > >>Am Fr, den 30.04.2004 schrieb WipeOut um 14:21: > >> > >>>I have a colocated server and when I have to get them to reboot it they > >>>just hit the power switch which can't be good for filesystems and > >>>databases.. > >>> > >>> > >>Ouch! Why not let the person requested to reboot your server just > >>pressing "Ctrl+Alt+Del"? That is by default not deactivated and will > >>cause the system to reboot. No user permissions needed, no need for a > >>"reboot user". > >Is there a CRT, Keyboard and Mouse on the box? > > > >If so you can have reboot and shutdown click to do it buttons on the > >CRT. No account access is needed only physical access. See gdm. > > Only if he is running X on the server. Then the login screen has that. Correct. Some colocos' only have a serial access so it is important to know what the access methods are which is why I asked about keyboard and mouse to see if this was even possible. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
