[m3trj]

OK well it's not an ordinary shutdown problem.

Basically when my computer is on and I'm not in and my mum or dad want to go out for a bit they turn off the computers, except they can't shut mine down properly because they have to log in to shut it down (as far as I know). So instead they switch it off at the wall socket every time.

So far this hasn't caused any noticable problems, although when I start it it says it's fixing errors and stuff. I'm using ext2 file system.

Is there a way I can create a user that is just allowed to shut the system down? Or Linux be shut down without a password?

Thanks in advance.

[horndude]

try adding a regular user to the sys line in /etc/group, may need to change the permissions on /bin/shutdown or wherever it is=====chmod u+s /bin/shutdown

make that point to the actual location of the shutdown program, that will make it run suid root, change /etc/group first and check to see if that works first

[charles@pcfix]

If you are logged into X-Windows system. Your folks should be able to hit ctrl+alt+del this is set is /etc/innittab

[horndude]

negative ctr-alt-del doesnt do anything at all, its a safeguard,at least on my system

[charles@pcfix]

I run red hat 9 and all versions of redhat that I have ever run this comand will reboot or shutdown depending on how you edit the code in /etc/inittab

add this line into /etc/inittab
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now

Horndude I know you are a slackware guy so I'm going to start up my slax box and see it this works with it. I'm not sure. It should but I've never tryed it.

[horndude]

mine has that line, but the keybindings to it dont work under X, only in console, crtl=alt-backspace kills X though