On 18/04/07, Tom Haynes <Thomas.Haynes at sun.com> wrote: > michelle olson wrote: > > Pedro F. Fajardo wrote: > >> Hi, > >> This may sound like a silly question, but I've installed Solaris > >> Express, and having trouble turning the system off. There is only an > >> option to log off, but none to power the system down. I've being > >> doing this by logging in to a console and typing 'halt', but I assume > >> there should be a better option, which I'm probably missing. > >> Thanks in advance. > >> > >> > >> This message posted from opensolaris.org > >> _______________________________________________ > >> opensolaris-help mailing list > >> opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org > >> > > Hi, > > > > If you are on x86, you can just press the power button or type 'init > > 5' command as superuser. This is not a silly question at all, and a > > new topic was recently written on this because it is a common question: > > > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/6n4m1vlb7?a=view > > > > Hope this helps, > > Michelle Olson > > OpenSolaris Doc Community > > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-help mailing list > > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org > > > So I read Pedro's question as why isn't there a "Turn off Computer" > button/menu item available from either the login screen or from the Gnome > Desktop Main Menu? If I'm transitioning to OpenSolaris from other OSes, > I expect to see that type of functionality.
It isn't there because of the "trust" issue. If you're logged in as root, you get some of those options. If you log in as a user other than root, you don't. There have been many discussions on this topic over the past few years. CC'ing desktop-discuss as I believe Glynn or one of the other recalls the exact reason. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
