# -+- number -+- category -+- title -+- email -+- name -+- homepage -+- clickOnName -+- language -+- image -+- browser-used -+- security-cookie =0 -+- 2000-03-24:1 -+- UNIX Basics -+- How to easily shutdown your Linuxbox without beeing root? -+- guido@bearix.oche.de -+- Bernd Muller -+- -+- nolink -+- English -+- -+- Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.10 i586) -+- 1974 People who do not boot to run-level 5 (grapical login) but use normal startx to start the window system I have the following trick:

Edit /etc/inittab and search for ctrlaltdel
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -r now
Replace the -r by -h:
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -h now
After that reboot once. Now you can shutdown and halt your computer by typing CTRL-ALT-DELETE. And this can be done by anybody without root rights.