Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:31:49 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Cc: Aijaz Baig <aijaz.abaig@gmail.com> Subject: Re: sudeors file not affecting user privileges Message-ID: <200804071031.49628.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <101a1afc0804070654g7f4d09b6re3a8a6e928b0974b@mail.gmail.com> References: <101a1afc0804070654g7f4d09b6re3a8a6e928b0974b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 07 April 2008 09:54:24 am Aijaz Baig wrote: > Hello, > > I would like 'normal users' to be able to issue the shutdown command. For > that reason I modified the 'sudoers' file and I uncommented the last line > which now reads:* * > *%users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now* > > However that didn't work. Then I thought > maybe the users above refer to some user defined group called 'users. So I > first created a group called 'users' and added 'masud' (one of my users) to > that group. Still No luck.. > > Then I read a bit about how does one actually add stuff to that file and > added(appended) the following to the file:* masud ALL=/sbin/shutdown -h > now* > > Well..nothing yet..I always log in as as 'masud' and try to see if shutdown > works (by issuing *shutdown -h now* from his account) and I get > */sbin/shutdown: > Permission denied > * > Well..How do I go about it... > > Please do let me know. > > Hope to hear from you soon, You need to use 'sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now'. Sudoers is used by sudo and you have to use sudo to invoke the command for sudeors to have an effect. -- John Baldwin
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