Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:49:06 +0100 From: Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [6.3] Assigning "shutdown" to eg. Syst? Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20090105034832.062efa78@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <20081223163910.I29108@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20081222195940.A4A4B1065697@hub.freebsd.org> <20081223155700.O29108@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <18768.30870.452544.128722@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20081223163910.I29108@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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At 07:08 23/12/2008, Ian Smith wrote: >On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Robert Huff wrote: > > Ian Smith writes: > > > > > Or let your dad login with his own account and password. Just > > > add him to the operator group so that he can run /sbin/shutdown. > > > > If that's the only priveledged command he needs ... is there a > > reason "sudo" isn't a better answer? > >Well, it's certainly another answer :) > >The only other thing being in group operator lets you run, apart from >what you've added into /etc/devfs.{conf,rules} is /sbin/mksnap_ffs .. Thanks everyone for the tips. I got sidetracked, and forgot to reply.
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