Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:00:48 -0400

>>>The shell for poweroff account is /sbin/poweroff, but its behavior is
>>>different than normal: My system only comes to "system halted" status
>>>when executing this /sbin/poweroff as shell from poweroff account,
>>>whereas executing /sbin/poweroff as root will go pass this status and
>>>turn the power off. What makes this difference? How can I also turn off
>>>the power by poweroff account?
>>
>>[...] do not make /sbin/poweroff the login shell for the
>>"poweroff" user. Do it with a little more sophistication. Write a shell
>>script that can accomplish what you want, and make that the login
>>"shell".
>
>Please shed more lights on this. I don't understand why bring more
>complexity into the situation would solve any problem.
>/sbin/poweroff is a simple smylink to /sbin/halt, which is a 32b ELF
>executable. What the different it would make executing an executable as a
>login shell command, or from command line or in a shell scripts?

Obviously by (1) creating and testing a shell script, then (2) making that the login shell, there is an intermediate testing possibility.

Paul Lutus