[PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Feb 27 22:27:38 UTC 2019


On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:

> Can I set an alias so when she exits X11 to a console all she needs to type
> is
> sudo halt
> and this will invoke /sbin/shutdown -h now? Gotta' keep in simple here.

Saw a web blog post that suggests I if add to her ~/.bash_rc the following
alias

alias halt='alias=`sudo ` halt'

all she'd need to type is halt. Does this look workable?

Rich



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