Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:28:09 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ned Harrison <nedsmailbox2@cox.net> Subject: Re: Very general shutdown question Message-ID: <200502062228.25075.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200502061646.27199.nedsmailbox2@cox.net> References: <200502061646.27199.nedsmailbox2@cox.net>
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--nextPart1369244.IWvCuqFg4s Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 06 February 2005 11:46 am, Ned Harrison wrote: > I run FreeBSD 5.3 on my home PC in a stand alone machine as a desktop. = Is > it possible to set it up so an ordinary user can shut the system? I've > created a couple of accounts that are not in the wheel group so I can give > friends and house guests the chance to play on a non-Microsoft system. I > don't want to give them root access just to shut it down. > > None of the books which I have discuss using FreeBSD in this way. They a= re > mostly geared to setting up networks running it for businesses. Areas > where one may not want an ordinary user to be able to shutdown the machin= e. > However, I prefer having the machine off when I'm not on it. If it's not > possible that fine I can continue working around it like I do now. > The easiest way I've found to do this is assuming you have X installed and = are=20 using a login manager ie. KDM/GDM/Login.app just use the shutdown=20 functionality of the login manager to shutdown the system. The most fool=20 proof way if you've got ACPI on this system it to just tap the power button= =20 and it'll shutdown. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart1369244.IWvCuqFg4s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCBuBZxqA5ziudZT0RAtIFAKCB7t04uLyD/gC+IwtAh+/QGKVQjQCggNKh +YHarakU3sfs0DNwDV0eVck= =ynE/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1369244.IWvCuqFg4s--
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