10 Nov
2003
10 Nov
'03
4:44 p.m.
Hi!
I was pondering over this for long. Is it possible to give a halt/reboot option at console when the system is started at runlevel 3 ? This is given by default if you login at runlevel 5.
One method seems to be : 1. Make a user named halt ( there already seems to be in /etc/passwd ) 2. Disable its password 3. edit its .bashrc so that halt command is issued immediately on login 4. similar steps for reboot
Can someone suggest some other more secure/logical solution to this ? Is the halt/reboot functionality in runlevel 5 achieved with same method as discussed above ?
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Nikhil Joshi
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