From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 9 08:54:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08260 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:54:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08239 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:54:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05488; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:32:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902091632.LAA05488@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Shutdown In-Reply-To: <19990209112229E.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> from W Gerald Hicks at "Feb 9, 99 11:22:29 am" To: wghicks@bellsouth.net (W Gerald Hicks) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:32:53 -0500 (EST) Cc: cchrstns@sdln.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG W Gerald Hicks wrote, > No you don't :-) Yes, I do. ;P > 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'. My users are NIS users. There is no good NIS mechanism (that I am aware of) to put them all in a group only defined on the local machine. I also do not need then having access to any other operator-only commands. They just need to be able to bring the machine down. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message