On 7/14/05, Aaron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/14/05, Björn König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rick Preston wrote: > > > > > I was going to offer something more complicated, thanks for the tip. > > > I came to realize that both our ideas require shutting down the > > > system. What would be the safest way to do that with out causing > > > potential damage to the system, without root access? > > > > Turn it off. It's not safe, but the only way that I know unless you > > don't have a user that is member of the group 'operator'. These users > > are allowed to use the 'shutdown' command with root privileges: > > > > > ls -l /sbin/shutdown > > -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 10148 Jul 11 14:12 /sbin/shutdown > > > > Björn > > I was under the impression that if you had physical access to the > console and a default init setup, ctrl-alt-delete would reboot even if > one wasn't logged in... perhaps I'm mistaken though.
Hi Aaron, Thanks for pointing that out. I just tryed it on a test system and it worked fine. Cheers, Rick _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
