From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 19:34:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75DC137B403 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:34:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C9E4687B; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:34:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:34:36 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-X-Sender: To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: Subject: Re: shutdown group In-Reply-To: <44elrd3b1p.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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