From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 12:19:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6EA37B405 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from btdang@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.248.85.196]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010718191909.RRPW16470.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:19:09 -0700 Message-ID: <3B55E274.1513CD78@home.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:24:36 -0700 From: Bruce Dang Organization: Boys & Girls Clubs X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Stratmann Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shutdown group References: <3B55B7B8.26500790@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> 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 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