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Cc: Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>,
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Subject: Re: [6.3] Assigning "shutdown" to eg. Syst?
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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?


			Robert Huff