From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 20:27:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay3.adelphia.net (smtprelay3.adelphia.net [64.8.25.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A9237B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:27:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain ([24.49.96.3]) by smtprelay3.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGPAY303.K6R; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:27:39 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6J3PKs80727; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:25:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:25:20 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: David Scheidt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] shutdown group Message-ID: <20010718232520.G80368@localhost> References: <448zhl3a8p.fsf_-_@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dscheidt@tumbolia.com on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:13:47PM -0500 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 I'm the only one who uses my workstation and I am trying to get into the habit of logging into root as little as possible. It is more convenient and more secure to use sudo to shutdown, then to log in as root and do the same thing, for me.:) Ian As it was put forth by David Scheidt on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:13:47PM -0500... > On 18 Jul 2001, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > :dscheidt@tumbolia.com (David Scheidt) writes: > : > :> And why you'd need to, given that shutdown has the -r and -h flags is > :> another question. > : > :It's a question with possible legitimate answers, though. It's not as > :if "shutdown -h" were the same thing as "halt"... > : > > I can't come up with a single good reason why a non-root user should be > allowed to use the halt(8) or reboot(8) commands. I can't come up with many > for root using them, either. > > -- > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message