Re: Administration question

1997-08-18 Thread Paul
Hi David, I work at Western university and we added a user shutdown. We told it when you log in to execute shutdown -h now and that is it. That might be the easiest way to do it. A little time consuming but other then that not the headaches that you could get if the system were to go down. If y

Re: Administration question

1997-08-17 Thread Shaya Potter
If she has access to the system, just tell her to do a ctrl-all-del, and then when the machine reboots turn it off during the memory check. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Administration question

1997-08-16 Thread Rob MacWilliams
>> Why not just tell her to use Control-Alt-Delete to shut down the system? >> Debian will perform an orderly shutdown and reboot the machine, at which >> time it can be safely powered off. >> >> No magic necessary. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jeff >> >> -- >> Make it idiot-proof, and someone will br

Re: Administration question

1997-08-15 Thread Ralph Winslow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am running a Debian system right now as a web development staging server. > At > present, it is only on a local network, but could conceivably become a gateway > to the Internet as well. So for the time being, it is basically a two-user > system (me and my wife).

Re: Administration question

1997-08-15 Thread stick
> > What would be the best way to enable her to run the shutdown command, without > creating a giant security hole which might bite me in the @*% should this > machine ever become a gateway? My thoughts up to this point: > > 1) Creating a group consisting of my wife and myself, and doing a setu

Re: Administration question

1997-08-15 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What would be the best way to enable her to run the shutdown command, without > creating a giant security hole which might bite me in the @*% should this > machine ever become a gateway? My thoughts up to this point: Why don't you use sudo? It allo

Re: Administration question

1997-08-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
Why not just tell her to use Control-Alt-Delete to shut down the system? Debian will perform an orderly shutdown and reboot the machine, at which time it can be safely powered off. No magic necessary. Regards, Jeff -- Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. PGP mail welcome