Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 11:22:29 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: cjclark@home.com, cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com Cc: cchrstns@sdln.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shutdown Message-ID: <19990209112229E.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:50:41 -0500 (EST)" <199902091550.KAA05417@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <199902091550.KAA05417@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Shutdown Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:50:41 -0500 (EST) > Corey, you are using a broken mailer or need to find the <enter> key a > bit more frequently. Your mail was all on one line. > > Corey A. Christians wrote, > > I know that teh HP flavor of UNIX allows users that cannot be root perform a shutdown. I was wondering if FreeBSD has this feature as well. I travel quite and it would be useful if someone else could reboot while I am away. > > % ls -l `which shutdown` > -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 147456 Jul 22 1998 /sbin/shutdown > > shutdown is a setuid command. It is simply a matter of using chmod to > give other users access to it. To reboot the system, > > % shutdown -r now > > I actually have to have machines set up with 4555 permissions on > shutdown to allow users to swap OS's in and out at will. No you don't :-) My shutdown is 'r-sr-xr--' root/operator as installed. Being a member of the operator group extends a shutdown priviledge that won't disappear after a 'make world'. (Running 3.0-STABLE) Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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