Hi, > |The way we have handled this at a customer installation is that > |we created a user "shutdown" who was privileded to run shutdown. > > You are not the only one to suggest this... the problem with this is > that it is highly insecure (well, you might say so is C-A-Del from the > keyboard, but this implies access to a card-controlled, monitored > room in our case), people can reboot from all over the net. And our > machines are teaching PCs, i.e. connected to the net.
There is no problem with checking for /dev/ttyXX as the controlling tty of he shutdown user's login. Greetings Bernd y -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
