Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:10:15 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: chmod, chown, and shutdown. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970320170925.8039A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.95.970320160858.52298D-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu>
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Make shutdown belong to root, group operator, and put your roommate in group operator. Then change the permissions on it to 4550. On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, K. Marsh wrote: > 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 > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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