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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:18:17 -0800 (PST)
From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: chmod, chown, and shutdown.
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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