On Thursday 03 January 2002 12:23, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Thomas Deselaers wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a > > good idea to be able to switch it of as user without being root. > >I had two ideas of making this possible. The one is to make it > > sudo-able and the other is to put the executable into a special > > group (e.g. poweroffer) and then make the binaries suid-root > > executable for this group and put the users which ought to be > > allowed to poweroff the workstation into this group. > > > >Of course this would be possible with gdm, but due to some other > > problems with gdm I reported a time ago which I still have not > > fixed I don't want to use gdm. [...] > The laziest way is to CTRL-ALT-DEL and hit the power button after > all's done.
I shut down my computer using CTRL-ALT-DEL. >From my /etc/inittab: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. #ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now Change the -r(eboot) to a -h(alt) -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
