Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:29:59 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: William Evanson <evawil823@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reboot script Message-ID: <20011206172959.M8975@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011207011320.32816.qmail@web14402.mail.yahoo.com>; from evawil823@yahoo.com on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:13:20PM -0800 References: <20011207011320.32816.qmail@web14402.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:13:20PM -0800, William Evanson wrote:
> I am looking to create a script to reboot my system
> weather or not someone is logged in at su or not.
> Does anyone know if this is possible. To do the su
> and login and password in a script. I know this is a
> bit unorthodox and not very safe, but does anyone have
> any ideas how to do a restart without root level access?
Are you saying you want to give non-root users the ability to reboot?
By default, anyone in the 'operator' group can use the shutdown(8)
command.
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