Re: reboot question

1999-09-06 Thread Joseph Chung
My parents have no password sudo access to the shutdown command on the Debian box I set up for them. This way they can shut down the machine from an icewm menu selection. On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:59:42PM +1000, Mark Bathie wrote: > I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is

Re: reboot question

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
ctrl-alt-delete works well for all users logged in at the console... On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:59:42PM +1000, Mark Bathie wrote: > I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is the best > way to allow them access to some sort of reboot command ? > > cheers, > > Mark.B. > >

Re: reboot question

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Mark Bathie wrote: > I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is the best > way to allow them access to some sort of reboot command ? I would use the ctrl-alt-del key combination. The first thing to do is edit /etc/shutd

Re: reboot question

1999-09-05 Thread Tommi L. Jensen
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:59:42PM +1000, Mark Bathie wrote: > I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is the best > way to allow them access to some sort of reboot command ? > sudo ? -- You name it, I lame it /LamerBill AKA platypus AKA Tommi L. Jensen --- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: reboot question

1999-09-05 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:59:42PM +1000, Mark Bathie wrote: > I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is the best > way to allow them access to some sort of reboot command ? Why do you need you friend to reboot your machine? Usually inittab is configured so that ctrl-alt-del