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Date:      18 Jul 2001 22:30:42 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shutdown group
Message-ID:  <44elrd3b1p.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
In-Reply-To: thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de's message of "18 Jul 2001 18:22:41 %2B0200"
References:  <3B55B7B8.26500790@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

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thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Thomas Stratmann) writes:

> 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).

Shutdown is installed this way by default.  If you really need those
people to have access to reboot and halt as well, you might consider
other options, but it's unlikely.

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