A reboot user

[Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell]

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 12:25:47PM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:33:28PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> >>Am Fr, den 30.04.2004 schrieb WipeOut um 14:21:
> >>
> >>>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..
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>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".
> >Is there a CRT, Keyboard and Mouse on the box?
> >
> >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.
> 
> Only if he is running X on the server.  Then the login screen has that.

Correct.  Some colocos' only have a serial access so it is important to 
know what the access methods are which is why I asked about keyboard and
mouse to see if this was even possible.



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