[ale] remote shutdown

[Robert Drake]

setup a process in inetd with an unused port number.  then restrict it in
hosts.allow/hosts.deny to only local networks

2001  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd /sbin/halt

I personally did this with pppd/killall pppd.  so users could start a 
ppp session with "telnet stupid 2001" (stupid is the name of my masq box)

Robert

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 jj at spiderentertainment.com wrote:

> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:58:10 -0400
> From: jj at spiderentertainment.com
> To: "ale at ale.org" <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: [ale] remote shutdown
> 
> I have a small machine at home RH6 that is doing ip_masq. And my sister
> in law wants to use the internet from her computer. She knows how to
> turn on the linux box but she does not know how to shut it down. I
> personally run the halt command which shutsdown and turns off the
> machine. I need a solution that will do just that, where she clicks on
> her desktop(Win98) and it rsh the halt command, any ideas ?
> 
> 
> BTW: I have a small hard disk in this machine that is getting corrupted,
> I'm looking for a kernel that will do IP_MASQ and can be booted from
> floppy, I looked at the devel project, but it does not say anything
> about ip_masq. Can I build such kernel ... ? I'll try tonight but any
> pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thx,
>