Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:50:26 -0400 From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> To: Chris Moline <chris@theboss.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How come halt has to be suid to work? Message-ID: <20000727015026.B698@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000726233343.0068b930@theboss.net>; from chris@theboss.net on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:33:43PM -0700 References: <3.0.3.32.20000726233343.0068b930@theboss.net>
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If you put yourself in the "operator" group, you should be able to run /sbin/halt (at least shutdown -h, which I am 99% sure calls halt, works). Eric On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:33:43PM -0700, Chris Moline wrote: > Usually when I finish up on my system I am working as root and so I never > noticed this before. The permissions were 555 but every time I used halt as > an ordinary user I got operation not permitted. I fixed this problem by > changing the permissions to 4550. Why does it have to be like this?(I > really don't like suid-I had to reinstall several times because of > malicious scripts. It is not so bad now that I know to watch out for them.) > > TIA, > Chris Moline > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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