Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 11:30:27 +1000 From: MJ <mafsys1234@gmail.com> To: Jim Trigg <jtrigg@huiekin.org>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, hw <hw@gc-24.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto allow anyone to poweroff? Message-ID: <133b534b-192a-5f90-c215-6e81c0800577@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2756FCF5-417A-471F-9562-BB957FD936A6@huiekin.org> References: <20190807183735.f4a87306c851426be6b799ca@gc-24.de> <20190807185445.62b59f2f.freebsd@edvax.de> <2756FCF5-417A-471F-9562-BB957FD936A6@huiekin.org>
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But would/could this get clobbered in an upgrade?
On 8/08/2019 5:09 am, Jim Trigg wrote:
> Way three is to chmod u+s,a+x /sbin/poweroff (or is it /usr/sbin/poweroff?).
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Trigg
>
>
> On August 7, 2019 12:54:45 PM EDT, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
>> 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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