The easiest way to have a shutdown command that the other members of your family can use with out giving the root password out is this: Step #1 - create a shutdown user and password ( you don't have to put the password in if you don't want to ) step #2 - change the field right after the password field (I think it is called the group field to 0 which is root access) step #3 - edit the .bash_profile to execute the shutdown command (ie in /sbin/shutdown -h now) I hope this helps. Paul McDermott
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote: > Is there a way for a user without root priveleges to cleanly unmount the > root file system and shutdown the computer? > > I've been running 'init 0' as root before turning off the box, but I > don't want to have to give out the root password to my family (it's bad > enough that I know it!) just so they can turn the thing off when I'm not > around. We'd rather not leave it on when it is not in use. > > Thanks, > Rikki > > ******************************************************************************* > > If you have already paid your bill, please disregard this notice. > > ******************************************************************************* > > >