On 01/24/00, Joseph A. Martin addressed "Allowing users to shutdown": > I have set up a Linux workstation for my family's use. They > only need to keep the system on for short periods. (For various > reasons I don't want to leave it on full time.) They are using the > icewm window manager, which, when they hit ctrl-alt-del, gives them > the option of shutting down or rebooting the system. /sbin/shutdown > has permissions that do not allow them to use the shutdown command, > unfortunately. What permissions must I set to allow anyone on that > system to shut it down?
A real simple solution is to change what Ctrl-Alt-Del does in /etc/inittab. On my wife's machine, I changed it a little to say: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now That way she can bring it down to a state where it's safe to shut off or reset without any further customization to the system. She's not even in sudoers. Of course, Ctrl-Alt-Del may be intercepted at certain times, e.g. in X, but all she has to do is go to a free VT if that's the case. -- Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace Lutheran Church (ELS) http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/ Madison, Wisconsin GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13
