Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 21:18:20 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very general shutdown question Message-ID: <20050207021820.GA18575@quark.cs.earlham.edu> In-Reply-To: <200502061646.27199.nedsmailbox2@cox.net> References: <200502061646.27199.nedsmailbox2@cox.net>
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--OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 04:46:26PM +0000, Ned Harrison wrote: > I run FreeBSD 5.3 on my home PC in a stand alone machine as a desktop. = Is it=20 > possible to set it up so an ordinary user can shut the system? I've crea= ted=20 > a couple of accounts that are not in the wheel group so I can give friend= s=20 > and house guests the chance to play on a non-Microsoft system. I don't = want=20 > to give them root access just to shut it down. >=20 > None of the books which I have discuss using FreeBSD in this way. They a= re=20 > mostly geared to setting up networks running it for businesses. Areas wh= ere=20 > one may not want an ordinary user to be able to shutdown the machine. =20 > However, I prefer having the machine off when I'm not on it. If it's not= =20 > possible that fine I can continue working around it like I do now. sudo(8) is a nice general-purpose utility that gives mortal users superuser access to certain commands. There's a port of it in security/sudo. --=20 -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCBs/ssc4yyULgN4YRAvFSAJ9mEe5YVwRYablQ2mHRQQZscLn4HwCgilKB c5nh5yhgaLji3wIXT7FVaTk= =wQLS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY--
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