From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 19:30:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4273737B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6J2Uhv98815; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:30:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown group References: <3B55B7B8.26500790@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 18 Jul 2001 22:30:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de's message of "18 Jul 2001 18:22:41 +0200" Message-ID: <44elrd3b1p.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 11 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 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 thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Thomas Stratmann) writes: > 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). Shutdown is installed this way by default. If you really need those people to have access to reboot and halt as well, you might consider other options, but it's unlikely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message