On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 03:55:08AM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> I understood that the "boss" in question didn't even have an account
> (the question was how to reboot at the _login_ prompt). I imagine this
> to be an office-type environment, as opposed to a computing shop.

That's correct.  Although I could give my boss a login, and it appears
that this might be the only solution, it seems a kludge, especially
since other PC unixes (oh, linux for instance,) have no problem with
accepting a three-finger salute to shut the machine down, configurable,
of course...

There's already hooks to get into ddb and shift virtual consoles -- why
not reboot the machine?  (or run arbitrary programs?)

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