Gary Stainburn wrote:
On Friday 30 Apr 2004 1:21 pm, WipeOut wrote:NOT.!!
Hi,
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..
Is there a way I can create a user account that will reboot the server on login?
This way I can give them a user account and they simply login with that account and it reboots the server..
I am guessing I need to create a login script or something similar but I am not sure how to get the system to execute the script at login if that is the way to do it..
Thnaks..
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.
a suid root script that gets executed would be much safer for security.
and in fact the script could do nothing more than "# telinit 6" for his task.
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)
