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= e = > way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root= = > 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= y = > 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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