Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:14:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Nils Holland <nils@nightcastleproductions.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Letting normal users halt the system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005301612250.72341-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005301548470.184-100000@tempest.ncptiddische.net>
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Nils Holland wrote: > Normally, only root can halt and reboot a machine using commands like > shutdown, halt and reboot. This is surely clever. But what can be done if > I explictly want normal users be able to reboot/halt the system? One > possibility that comes to my mind is to compile the kernel so that > CTRL+ALT+DEL is interpreted as system-reboot ( I generally > disable this, but if it's turned on, users could press these keys and > after the system is halted and the reboot-process starts they could turn > it of). Now I'm wondering if there's some place in which I can set the > system up so that also the halt, reboot and shutdown commands work for > normal users. While this surely shouldn't be done on a server in which > many people log in ( that shouldn't be rebootable / haltable by > everyone), it would be good if it worked on one of my computers which is > normally being turned on and off by users as needed. I use `sudo' from the ports/packages collection for this purpose; it allows to grant users special rights which usually require root privilege. Regards Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen http://www.freebsd.org Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen http://www.daemonnews.o= rg Deutschland (Germany) kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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