From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 26 17:34:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D618637B402 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:34:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp9-28.ath.forthnet.gr Bernie_X@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [213.16.156.28] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with Novell NIMS $Revision: 2.88 $ on Novell NetWare; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:34:50 -0700 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 01:22:00 +0200 (EET) From: Bernie X-X-Sender: root@BLAST To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: Dimitri T , Subject: Re: shutdown In-Reply-To: <20020127122850.R823@k7.mavetju.org> Message-ID: <20020127012015.X4706-100000@BLAST> 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 Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > 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 > > i was looking at the same for 'halt' -r-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel 228812 Dec 27 11:24 halt seems everyone can use it... Regards --Bernie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message