On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:46:11PM +0100, neil wrote: > >Try creating a passwd entry with a uid and gid of '0' (same as root) and > >set the path for the shell to be a program which simply calls shutdown > >with the relevent parameters. > >The program will be run when the user logs in, and the user will be logged > >out again as soon as the program exits. > >(Not tried it though) > IMHO it would be safer, cleaner and more practical - if you have no ssh > access - to create a non priviledged user that can 'sudo reboot'. If you > take a few minutes to read through the sudo man pages you'll find it can > be a very useful tool indeed. Neither of these should be necessary -- the default consolehelper/PAM configuration for 'reboot' is such that any user with console access can run reboot without further authentication. (For this exact reason, in fact -- no sense in denying clean reboots to someone who can probably just pull the plug.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
