From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 26 17:30: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D4F37B43E for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:29:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54CB92B82D; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 02:28:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DCBAA345; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:28:50 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:28:50 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Dimitri T Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown Message-ID: <20020127122850.R823@k7.mavetju.org> References: <20020127012029.97046.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020127012029.97046.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com>; from midiostri@yahoo.co.uk on Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:20:29AM +0000 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 Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:20:29AM +0000, Dimitri T wrote: > is it possible to give a user (other than root) the > right to shutdown the system? If you look at the permissions of /sbin/shutdown, you see: -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 166304 Sep 19 03:27 /sbin/shutdown So everybody in the group operator can issue the shutdown command. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message