From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 5 16:39:05 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CF216A419 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:39:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221D713C458 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:39:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so69464ugf for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.157.19 with SMTP id f19mr5328810hue.1189006671462; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:37:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? ( [217.196.247.135]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 30sm5452861hue.2007.09.05.08.37.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:37:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46DECD4F.3050408@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:37:51 +0100 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: temporary su login X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:39:05 -0000 My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that box ie it's purely key based. -- Robin Becker