From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 10:52:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C590914C0C for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:52:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (lowell@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24269 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:52:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03592; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:52:16 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Group problems References: <99110818305400.00416@machine.beastie.org> <19991109231030.A980@marder-1> <19991110195627.A319@marder-1> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Nov 1999 13:52:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: Mark Ovens's message of Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:56:27 +0000 Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens writes: > it (assuming they are members of the group wheel). Surely, from a > security point of view, only one user (root) should be able to > halt/reboot a machine; or are all members of wheel supposed to be > intelligent, considerate (towards other users) individuals? My answer is the latter. As I see it, you normally only give "wheel" access to people who should also have the root password. I don't think there's anything wrong with restricting the permissions on /sbin/shutdown if you want to, though. Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message