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Date:      Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:57:04 GMT
From:      "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com>
To:        robin@reportlab.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: temporary su login
Message-ID:  <20070906.165704.14591.0@webmail18.dca.untd.com>

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Robin Becker wrote:
> My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants som=
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> way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root=
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> user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At =

> present I don't even allow login via ssh on that box ie it's purely ke=
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> based.
	What I would do is develop a script (owned by  root ) and
callable by everybody which then checks the  user-id  of its caller,
and if it is an acceptable one, the script will issue a warning
(to wall) and then shutdown the system.




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