On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 01:19:25PM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> Someone with physical access can already do this, just more
> destuctively.

Exactly.  If somebody (besides myself) wants to shut down my machine,
the only option they currently have is the big red switch.  Installing
kdm or gdm for the sake of providing a way to shut down nicely is
a lot of overhead.  (I don't run X on the machine in question.)

> Also, by "arbitrary" I'm sure he meant as configured by the system
> owner, not giving users the ability to run arbitrary programs.

Yes.  "Arbitrary" as configured by the system administrator.  :)  I was
thinking along the lines of either "shutdown -r" or "shutdown -h".

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