"shutdown button" in dtwm login menu

[Luka Kodrič]

Hello everybody

Is possible to make a shutdown button in dtwm login screen that will execute "shutdown -hy 0" ?
Because i have one person who is using HP-UX workstation for cad/cam and he doesn't have a clue about UNIX and i would not like that he would have root access to the system or type any commands to do a shutdown.

cheers

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

I suppose it's possible but it sounds like quite a bit or work to accomplish something that really shouldn't be necessary. Unlike Windoze machines, HP-UX boxes are designed to stay up for extended periods.

Why else would there be a command called uptime that tells you how long your machine has been up?

;^)


Pete