On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:04:49AM -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > Please confirm by entering your login password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Are you saying that this is an interactive process on the system? I'd suggest you make sure this isn't some sort of email ticket that stores a password or emails it. You could probably use 'sudo' to handle the part of authenticating the user, and run a very limited service that queried a secure system for approval and initiated the shutdown. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>