How do I gracefully exit/shutdown a "remote" machine?

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 05:44:14PM -0400, Henry Spencer wrote

> Don't try to do it interactively.  Sign off from the interactive
> session, and then "ssh root at p3box poweroff" (substituting the
> appropriate name for "p3box").  Works for me.

  Thanks.  Sounds like what I need.  I may make slight changes by
creating a dedicated user for shutdown, authorised in /etc/sudoers.
Or maybe even make the shutdown process their "user shell".  I don't
currently have my machine publicly accessable.  But if I ever do, I
don't want to have root be able to log in directly

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