Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 18:54:45 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: hw <hw@gc-24.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto allow anyone to poweroff? Message-ID: <20190807185445.62b59f2f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20190807183735.f4a87306c851426be6b799ca@gc-24.de> References: <20190807183735.f4a87306c851426be6b799ca@gc-24.de>
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On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 18:37:35 +0200, hw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to allow ordinary users to poweroff a machine? I'd
> like to automatically poweroff PXE booted clients once the user that
> was logged in logs out after using it.
There are basically two ways:
Way 1 is to add the users to the group "operator". This, however,
allows them to do other things too which you might not be interested
in allowing them.
Way 2 is to add a program like sudo or super to your installation
and allow the users to use _one_ specific program ("poweroff only").
This is probably the safer way.
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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