Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:24:36 -0700 From: Bruce Dang <btdang@home.com> To: Thomas Stratmann <thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shutdown group Message-ID: <3B55E274.1513CD78@home.com> References: <3B55B7B8.26500790@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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please look into sudo. bruce dang www.tbug.org Thomas Stratmann wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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