Janina Sajka wrote: > So very, very true. In fact, this has at times fooled me into rebooting > the wrong machine. My error , orf course, in not paying attention to the > hostname which is part of my prompt. But, it has in fact happened that > I've rebooted a machine half way around the planet when I meant to > reboot the laptop I was typing on. > I can't comment on distros other than Debian, but there is a package called mollygard or mollyguard which is supposed to prevent this. It still allows reboots but will prompt you if you're connected via ssh. I haven't used it.