shutdown by regular user

[Tom H]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:16 PM, William Scott Lockwood III
<scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2015 4:38 PM, "Niles Rogoff" <nilesrogoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The shutdown group with the sudoers file is the correct way to do it.
>
> There are many correct ways to do it.
>
> Top posting is not one of them.
>
> Back on topic, if the user is local to the machine, ctrl-alt-delete works
> just as well.

The default response to ctrl-alt-del is to reboot a system not shut it down.