Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:50:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: cchrstns@sdln.net (Corey A. Christians) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shutdown Message-ID: <199902091550.KAA05417@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <001301be543b$58055260$5dfc34cc@sdln.net> from "Corey A. Christians" at "Feb 9, 99 07:49:02 am"
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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. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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