A reboot user

[WipeOut]

Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:

>On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 12:25:47PM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
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>>>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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>>>>>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.
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>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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AFAIK they yse a KVM switch, but X is not installed on the server..