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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 1995 09:20:38 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why cant a setuid process do a shutdown?
Message-ID:  <199510300820.JAA04857@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199510292245.RAA05648@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Oct 29, 95 05:45:54 pm

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As Charles Henrich wrote:
> 
> Okay, I've tried everything, and I cant figure out anyway in which a setuid
> process can execute a shutdown.

It works for me.  /sbin/shutdown on my notebook is mode 4750, so i
can execute it as normal user.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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