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Bevan Broun wrote in message <344E7977.A6ADB15C@ee.uwa.edu.au>...
>I have redhat 4.1 on a digital celebris 5200. Its a dual boot
>NT/Linux system and I want users to be able to reboot the
>machine from linux to get to NT.
>
>I have
>
>ca:35:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now
>
>in /etc/inittab  (and have tried the run level set only for 3 or 5 )
>
>hitting ctrl-alt-del does nothing except a quick flash of the screen
>in in a xterm if it has focus. When changing from runlevel 5 to run
>level 3 I get an interesting situation; a login prompt does not appear
>unless ENTER is hit, if enter is not hit but ctrl-alt-del instead the
>message:
>
>Shutdown: no authorized users logged in
>
>Hitting ctrl-alt-del again does nothing. Hitting enter gives a login
>prompt then ctrl-alt-del does nothing. The last message shown in before
>getting a login prompt after switching to run level 3 is:
>
>Loading keymap: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/us.map
>
>ctrl-alt-del performs as expected under NT.
>Something seems to be screening ctrl-alt-del from init.
>
>I would really like to have a shutdown button on the X login screen -
>anybody done this?


AFAIK The only user authorised to issue the shutdown command is root for
obvious reasons.