You could create a user 'halt' uid 0, which runs a shell script
	that confirms it is logged into the console, then runs halt.

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On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Julio Merino wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:56:51PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
>
> > There has been a discussion on how to do this on tech-kern (in January 2001,
> > subject "Kernel <-> init communication for shutdown").
>
> Ok, I'll look at it.
>
> >
> > It's only clear consensus was: this has to be configurable.
>
> Yeah, it could be pretty to be able to setup the keys to do that for
> example...
>
> >
> > Some other points to note: Ctrl-Alt-Del is just one of the i386 specific
> > incarnation of a signal the user sends to initiate a shutdown. Pressing the
> > "Power" button on a Mac keyboard is the same, as it is on Sun's (where there
> > is another soft-power button in the case).
>
> I've seen a Power button in lots of new keyboards for PC's.
>
> >
> > Actually, on modern PCs, pressing the power button should do the same - via
> > some ACPI magick in the kernel.
>
> The problem is that my router doesn't have apm nor acpi... heh
>
> >
> >
> > Martin
>