On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:03:26AM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> Re. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2003/06/26/0010.html
quoting: what should i do to enable computer reset after pressing
         crtl-alt-del from login prompt? is it also possible to do
         it from shell?

I do it as a non-root user (member of wheel or operator group, I've
forgotten which) with aliases in the .cshrc file, e.g.,
   alias poff '/sbin/shutdown -p now'
   alias reboot '/sbin/shutdown -r now'
or with simple, executable shell scripts which check for other users on
machines where that might be a problem, or prompt when screen sessions are
running to see if I want to close them all immediately and shutdown.
(Great for those "if you don't get down to the dinner table in 5 seconds,
then no dinner" kind of times.)

-- 
henry nelson