🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <C0qGHw.2E0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>  writes:
> yann@dagobah.fdn.org (Yann Lechelle) writes:
> 
> 
> >  POWER OFF DISABLED...  THEN WHAT ?????
> 
> >	As a paranoid system administrator, I welcomed the  
> >'PowerOffDisabled' option from the loginwindow program. However, it  
> >is true that when such an option is set, it is not that convenient to  
> >	actually performs a shutdown without the need to be  
> >super-user
> >	(which would corrupt security greatly !).
> 
> 
> >Thanks.
> 
> If you are at the console, try Cmd-~ then hit the power key.  It
> works even if PowerOff[is]Disabled.
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Ooo, ouch, that hurts!

Now, there is a verry nice way to do this as root (iehter logged in or su'd):

shutdown -h -p now

and, if I'm not all wrong, this is also what can be used instead of the  
non-existant fasthalt!

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