Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 21:22:39 +1000 From: Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com> To: thomas@hindsight.de Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system? Message-ID: <20061005212239.b79a9498.nick@nickwithers.com> In-Reply-To: <200610051324.14456.thomas@hindsight.de> References: <200610051324.14456.thomas@hindsight.de>
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On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:14 +0200
thomas@hindsight.de wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the wheel
> group during the add users portion of the installation. For some reason I
> have not put a finger on yet I cannot shutdown the system "do not have
> permission" to effect the command.
The shutdown(8) binary ("/sbin/shutdown") is not owned by the
"wheel" group (do an "ls -l" on it), but by the "operator"
group.
> Went back as root on a later session and
> re-entered my name in /etc/group to the wheel account to no avail, anybody
> got an idea as to where I need to look?
I personally set the execute bit on "/sbin/shutdown" for
others on my desktop machine, as I want anyone using it
(locally, no remote access enabled) to be able to shut it down.
To do this: "chmod o+x /sbin/shutdown". Might be a good idea to
understand the setuid concept beforehand, if you don't
already...
> Thanks,
> Tommy2
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