From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 26 17:45:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EEDA37B416 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:45:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0641D5D0D; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:45:27 -0800 (PST) To: Bernie Cc: Edwin Groothuis , Dimitri T , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Jan 2002 01:22:00 +0200." <20020127012015.X4706-100000@BLAST> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:45:27 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020127014527.0641D5D0D@ptavv.es.net> 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 > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 01:22:00 +0200 (EET) > From: Bernie > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > 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... No. halt is executable by everyone, but nobody but root has the required privilege to actually get it to do anything. If you have console access, CTRL-ALT-DEL will shutdown the system, regardless of who is logged in (or even if no one is logged in. Of course, this feature may have been disabled. The proper way to allow a user to shutdown the system is to put them in the operator group or, if this is not suited to your situation, use sudo which is in the ports. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message