Comments on: Put OS X to sleep via command-line

By: chic

chic — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:49:51 +0000

with -h you halt and -r reboot
instead of now you can specify a time
visudo allow to grant users access to sudo commands
without be a sudouser
for example if you add :

%users ALL=/sbin/shutdown
then every users can use shutdown from everywhere

%admin ALL=/sbin/shutdown
grant to admin

me localhost=/sbin/shutdown
grant to user me from localhost

By: Florent

Florent — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:20:19 +0000

Hey, that’s neat! I didn’t know that option was in shutdown at all. :)

I like the fact that Applescript doesn’t require to be superuser, but using the system’s “shutdown” command might be more appealing to some people. Thanks for the tip!

By: chic

chic — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:48:32 +0000

there is: sudo shutdown -s now
to not have to enter password you have to add a line with: sudo visudo