Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:31:52 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUID permission on Bash script Message-ID: <200908281231.52421.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <87y6p4pbd0.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <beaf3aa50908280124pbd2c760v8d51eb4ae965dedc@mail.gmail.com> <87y6p4pbd0.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Friday 28 August 2009 10:54:19 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:35 +0100, Jeronimo Calvo <jeronimocalvop@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi folks! > > > > Im trying to set up a reaaallly basic scrip to allow one user to shutdown > > my machine without root permisions, seting up SUID as follows: > [snip] > > The good thing is that you don't need a shell script to do that. You > can install `sudo' and give permission to the specific user to run: > > sudo shutdown -p now Or (assuming it doesn't grant too many other privileges) just put the user in group operator.
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