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Re: rebooting netBSD locally
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David C Zhang)
Mon Aug 12 14:53:29 1996
From: David C Zhang <davidz@MIT.EDU>
To: Eric Sit <esit@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:37:46 EDT."
<199608121837.OAA01043@ctpid-36.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:47:35 EDT
Here is a way to get around giving away the root passwd.
Create a new user (like shutdown) whose shell is /sbin/shutdown,
and give away that user's passwd to others.
I think you have to add that user to wheel, but I am not sure.
David
In message <199608121837.OAA01043@ctpid-36.MIT.EDU>, esit@mit.edu writes:
>Hi there,
>I was wondering if there was a way to reboot NetBSD if someone wants to
>do it at the console. For example, Linux has this implementation in the
>/etc/inittab file that allows one to reboot the machine by hitting ctrl-alt-
>delete. This is like an alias to the shutdown -r now command.
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>Is there a way i can do something similar for NetBSD? I want to allow local
>users to reboot, but I don't really want to give away the root password...
>
>Eric
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