Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 06:38:11PM -0700, Chris Bennett wrote: > > Well, there are probably additional reasons too, but my father > > happily runs OpenBSD. Of course, he needs to be able to turn the > > computer off. > > I would recommend using doas(1) to grant 'shutdown' to a particular > user. You don't want to run a web browser from an account in the > operator group.
An alternative is to just press the power button for half a second. I have yet to encounter hardware running OpenBSD that won't shut down cleanly this way, as APM/ACPI support has been stellar for me. Logging out first would be advisable though, /me thinks.
