A reboot user

[Jeff Vian]

Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:33:28PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>Am Fr, den 30.04.2004 schrieb WipeOut um 14:21:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I have a colocated server and when I have to get them to reboot it they 
>>>just hit the power switch which can't be good for filesystems and 
>>>databases..
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>>Ouch! Why not let the person requested to reboot your server just
>>pressing "Ctrl+Alt+Del"? That is by default not deactivated and will
>>cause the system to reboot. No user permissions needed, no need for a
>>"reboot user".
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>Is there a CRT, Keyboard and Mouse on the box?
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>If so you can have reboot and shutdown click to do it buttons on the
>CRT.  No account access is needed only physical access.  See gdm.
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Only if he is running X on the server.  Then the login screen has that.