On 17-May-99 Adam Szilveszter wrote:

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You don't even have to move the mouse, take two identical mouses and boot with another mouse installed, then switch it to the another, you have to reboot before win95 detects the new mouse.

But: If you have a computer that can't be power-on for 24h / day, say, a computer used mainly for text-editing (that old 486 :), wouldn't it be nicer to give users a possibility to shut it down with their own password, rather than delivering root's password to everyone, or recommending microsoft-style shutdown "just switch the power off, it's all right then" :)

Of course, better example than "sudo reboot" would have been "sudo halt" which would do the obvious.

"You cannot shut down the computer yourself, but just ask me and I will be there in a minute. Oh, I forgot, I won't be home until tomorrow.. Would you like to become a sysadmin?" :)

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