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. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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