Unprivileged user shutdown

[Kevin D. Clark]

Cole Tuininga writes:

> I manage a system remotely for some people who are not terribly linux
> (or really, computer) savvy.  When they need to move the server for
> whatever reason, they just hit the power button to shut it off.  
>
> Obviously, this is not preferable.

I accidently hit the power button for a second on my Fedora Core 2 box
(kernel 2.6.x) the other night.  A few seconds later, the system shut
itself down cleanly.  No, there wasn't a whole lot going on on the box
at the time.

I've never seen it do *that* before.  I haven't had time to
investigate this, but I'd guess that there's a hook in inittab for
this.

Perhaps you can exploit this functionality for your scenerio?

Regards,

--kevin
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