Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:19:49 -0500 From: "Glen Barber" <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [6.3] Assigning "shutdown" to eg. Syst? Message-ID: <4ad871310812221219y4f9345ebr2028a4493a552ff@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <du8vk4h09llfrhovtps9rifdngm12bs9gj@4ax.com> References: <du8vk4h09llfrhovtps9rifdngm12bs9gj@4ax.com>
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr> wrote: > Hello > > I'd like to make it easier for my dad to shutdown a server. Instead of > having him plug a keyboard, log on as root (with a complicated > password) and finally type "shutdown -h now", is it possible to assign > this command to some unused key like eg. Syst? Even better, send this > command only if the key is hit eg. three times within 2 seconds? > You could add him to the operator group, which would not require him to be root. -- Glen Barber
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