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And of course there's always the old standby in /etc/passwd (obviously change the account name) secretshutdown:x:0:0:root:/root:/sbin/shutdown And it presupposes that root logins are allowed (which is asking for trouble). >>>Ericw

Hepp! I am sitting in a remote country trying to reboot my server at home. Services are running, but the filesystem seems to be unreachable. I can ssh into the system, but when entering interactive mode, nothing happens and the session is terminated. Then I thought - what if sshd had builtins like bash, so that i could send a "reboot" command to the ssh daemon instead "ssh system