From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 12:13: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf1.de (mail.surf1.de [194.25.165.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0C137B54D for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 12:13:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nils@nightcastleproductions.org) Received: from sundance.ncptiddische.net (pC19F698F.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [193.159.105.143]) by mail.surf1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA25229; Tue, 30 May 2000 21:13:27 +0200 Received: from tempest.ncptiddische.net (tempest.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.3]) by sundance.ncptiddische.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA04359; Tue, 30 May 2000 21:13:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nils@nightcastleproductions.org) Received: from tempest.ncptiddische.net (tempest.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.3]) by tempest.ncptiddische.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA00270; Tue, 30 May 2000 21:15:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nils@nightcastleproductions.org) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 21:15:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Nils Holland X-Sender: nils@tempest.ncptiddische.net To: Nathan Vidican Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Letting normal users halt the system In-Reply-To: <3933F56E.82B51937@wmptl.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 May 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Alternately then, you could create a new group, (eg shutusers), and > re-chown /sbin/shutdown to root:shutusers, then chmod 750. Note that > while placing them in the operator group allows them to run the > shutdown, it does not allow them to explicitly use 'reboot' or 'halt', > but rather 'shutdown -h now' and 'shutdown -r now'. > I am assuming that these are workstation machines you want the users to > be able to shutdown/reboot no? Why not try using some utility like kdm, > (KDE's X-Windows login app), as a replacement for Login: ? I think, from the other information I've received, sudo is the better solution. I will get it and set it up right away. I'm not using kdm (or something) because I like the normel text console more. Although users could access the console using xterm under X11, I still like the sudo-suggestion more. Thanks for all the help, Nils To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message