Didnt there used to be (way back when..) a user called halt or shutdown (or something) in some distros whose shell was shutdown or init 0 (or, again, something). IIRC they were configured so that the user could only connect to console - probably for the obvious reasons. Long time back... brain hurts -----Original Message----- From: OKDesign oHG Security Administrator [mailto:security@okdesign.de] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:39 AM To: suse-security@suse.com Subject: [suse-security] creating a normal user just for reboot Hi folks. I want to enable a user to login, and after succesful login the system reboots. I tried out the following: - creating an user - in ~/.profile I put "sudo /sbin/reboot" - with visudo I defined "<username> ALL: NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot" but this won't work. Am I missing something or am I totally on the wrong way ? thx. Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com