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- Subject: Re: 'PowerOffDisabled' suggested trick... (RTF)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.130150.6840@urz.unibas.ch>
- From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:01:50 GMT
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- In article <C0qGHw.2E0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:
- > yann@dagobah.fdn.org (Yann Lechelle) writes:
- >
- >
- > > POWER OFF DISABLED... THEN WHAT ?????
- >
- > > As a paranoid system administrator, I welcomed the
- > >'PowerOffDisabled' option from the loginwindow program. However, it
- > >is true that when such an option is set, it is not that convenient to
- > > actually performs a shutdown without the need to be
- > >super-user
- > > (which would corrupt security greatly !).
- >
- >
- > >Thanks.
- >
- > If you are at the console, try Cmd-~ then hit the power key. It
- > works even if PowerOff[is]Disabled.
- > --
- > David Lemson (217) 244-1205
- > University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
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- > NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
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- Ooo, ouch, that hurts!
-
- Now, there is a verry nice way to do this as root (iehter logged in or su'd):
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- shutdown -h -p now
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- and, if I'm not all wrong, this is also what can be used instead of the
- non-existant fasthalt!
-
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