From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 9:22:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sunu422.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (sunu422.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.64.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F41637B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:22:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Received: (qmail 8046 invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2001 16:22:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 8039 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2001 16:22:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ruhr-uni-bochum.de) (134.147.159.3) by mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de with SMTP; 18 Jul 2001 16:22:19 -0000 Message-ID: <3B55B7B8.26500790@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:22:16 +0200 From: Thomas Stratmann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: shutdown group Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks, I would like to have a group of people on my machine being able to reboot/halt/shutdown without having to su root. The only solution I have seen before is to chgrp the executables halt and reboot into this group and making them suid (both check for EUID being zero, I believe, so the second step seems necessary). I would like you to advise me - if there is a better solution - what security issues will give me trouble with the above way (SUID always rings alarm bells for me...) Thanks in advance! Thomas Stratmann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message