According to cristian: While burning my CPU.
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> Ladies and Gentelmen,
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> I did everything you said.
> I added /sbin to user's PATH.
> I tried /sbin/halt or ./halt.
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> I got only one result: the message "must be superuser".
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> One thing worked: su , but it is asking the root password.
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> As a matter of fact I am using my box as a home-PC. I am the superuser
> and the kids are users, and I don't want give them the root password.
> But they need to shutdown the computer. I don't use the computer 24h/day
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> How can I solve this?
Easy, depress ctrl-alt-del keys togehter.
You might want to edit /etc/inittab and change the options used for;
# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
After editing type 'init q' to reread the file otherwise your changes will
not work untill "after" you have booted.
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> Thanks.
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> Cristian Carnutu
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Regards Richard.
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