Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:36:11 -0400 From: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> To: <gs_stoller@juno.com>, <robin@reportlab.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: temporary su login Message-ID: <106801c7f0cd$f202a510$6900a8c0@tamouh> In-Reply-To: <20070906.165704.14591.0@webmail18.dca.untd.com> References: <20070906.165704.14591.0@webmail18.dca.untd.com>
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>=20 > Robin Becker wrote: > > My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants=20 > > some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a=20 > > non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the=20 > > world. At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that=20 > box ie it's=20 > > purely key based. > What I would do is develop a script (owned by root )=20 > and callable by everybody which then checks the user-id of=20 > its caller, and if it is an acceptable one, the script will=20 > issue a warning (to wall) and then shutdown the system. >=20 why not ask them to do CTRL+ALT+DEL which will reboot the server cleanly = and once it hit does the intial reset, turn it off. Tamouh
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