Script to shutdown remotely a server

dtournas · 02-06-2005, 01:44 PM

Hi. I want to allow a user from a windows terminal to run a script or sth similar, so he/she can only shutdown a slack 10 server on the network.

I want this because a few days ago, in a dept of our company, we had a power down incident and the raid crashed. So I want to give the opportunity to a user to "shutdown -h now" the server without forcing him/her to login to a terminal.

Any hints? Thank you!

PS: It would be great if this could firewalled somehow, so it can be done only from a specific IP on the network.

Tino27 · 02-06-2005, 01:51 PM

Why not set up a SSH account for the user on the particular server and give that user the power to issue the "shutdown" command? You can then lock down the particular IP address by placing it in the /etc/hosts.allow file.

dtournas · 02-06-2005, 01:55 PM

Thanks for the reply. That was the idea in the first place. Unfortunately, not all users are able to ssh from a terminal cause they don't even know how to ssh...

You can say that they are typical windows users. They can only click a button to do sth...

uselpa · 02-06-2005, 02:26 PM

I believe that you can use PuTTY (= free Windows SSH client), with a .bat or .cmd, to do just that. If you add a shortcut to that batch file on their desktop, a double-click will do.