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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:24:36 -0700
From:      Bruce Dang <btdang@home.com>
To:        Thomas Stratmann <thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: shutdown group
Message-ID:  <3B55E274.1513CD78@home.com>
References:  <3B55B7B8.26500790@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

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please look into sudo.

bruce dang
www.tbug.org

Thomas Stratmann wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I would like to have a group of people on my machine being able to
> reboot/halt/shutdown without having to su root. The only solution I have
> seen before is to chgrp the executables halt and reboot into this group
> and making them suid (both check for EUID being zero, I believe, so the
> second step seems necessary).
> 
> I would like you to advise me
> - if there is a better solution
> - what security issues will give me trouble with the above way (SUID
> always rings alarm bells for me...)
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Thomas Stratmann
> 
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