Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:45:30 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: Nils Holland <nils@nightcastleproductions.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Letting normal users halt the system Message-ID: <3933D409.A3171591@wmptl.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005301548470.184-100000@tempest.ncptiddische.net>
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Nils Holland wrote: > > Well, I wonder about the following thing: > > Normally, only root can halt and reboot a machine using commands like > shutdown, halt and reboot. This is surely clever. But what can be done if > I explictly want normal users be able to reboot/halt the system? One > possibility that comes to my mind is to compile the kernel so that > CTRL+ALT+DEL is interpreted as system-reboot ( I generally > disable this, but if it's turned on, users could press these keys and > after the system is halted and the reboot-process starts they could turn > it of). Now I'm wondering if there's some place in which I can set the > system up so that also the halt, reboot and shutdown commands work for > normal users. While this surely shouldn't be done on a server in which > many people log in ( that shouldn't be rebootable / haltable by > everyone), it would be good if it worked on one of my computers which is > normally being turned on and off by users as needed. > > See ya, > Nils > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Place the user(s) you want to be able to halt/shutdown the system into the 'operator' group; this will allow them tu run 'shutdown -h now' to halt, and 'shutdown -r now' to reboot. (This will only work assuming the default chown of root.operator to /sbin/shutdown). You don't need to use sudo, or anything like that. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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