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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:34:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: shutdown group
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0107182134030.21625-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <44elrd3b1p.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>

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On 18 Jul 2001, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

: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.

And why you'd need to, given that shutdown has the -r and -h flags is
another question.

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dscheidt@tumbolia.com
Bipedalism is only a fad.


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