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From: pentch@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Inhibiting power-down button and "power" user?
Message-ID: <4941@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 11 Jul 90 15:57:44 GMT
Reply-To: pentch@u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next
Organization: Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
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We're about to configure our stand-alone NeXT as a server on an NFS
network.  Obviously, we'd like to inhibit the power-down key on the
keyboard.

In the NeXT Reference there are some instructions on how to do this
(using root's defaults database, set loginwindow's PowerOffDisabled
parameter).  I can't get that to work - to exactly what must
PowerOffDisabled be set?  Are there weird permissions I need to set?

Secondly, NeXT suggests setting up a user named "power" with
loginwindow's Workspace parameter set to "/usr/etc/halt -p" (so that
you can get the machine shut down without logging in as root).  I can't
get that to work either.  I have user "power" in group "wheel" and
/usr/etc/halt has wheel group execute permission...  What else should I
try?  Are there other magical permissions to set?

Thanks for any suggestions.

-Dean

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Dean Pentcheff  (pentch@u.washington.edu)
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720
Presently at:  Friday Harbor Labs, 620 University Rd., Friday Harbor, WA 98250