Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:18:17 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> To: questions@freebsd.com Subject: chmod, chown, and shutdown. Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.95.970320160858.52298D-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu>
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My roomate uses my computer to check his e-mail and do a little web browsing in FreeBSD, as well as to use Word, Excel, and other expensive programs in that other operating system. How can I give him the ability to issue "shutdown" without giving him root privileges? I am aware that it may be a security hole, but he's not going to hack my system. I just don't want him to able to destroy everything by accident. I tried using chmod and chown on the binary, but even when he owns it and it's in 777 mode, it doesn't execute. I'm using 2.2-RELEASE if it makes any difference. Thanks, Ken Marsh
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