Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:36:15 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: Thomas Stratmann <thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: shutdown group Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0107182135290.21625-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <3B55B7B8.26500790@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Thomas Stratmann wrote: :Hi folks, : :I would like to have a group of people on my machine being able to :reboot/halt/shutdown without having to su root. The only solution I have :seen before is to chgrp the executables halt and reboot into this group :and making them suid (both check for EUID being zero, I believe, so the :second step seems necessary). : Put them in the group "operator". They can then run the shutdown command. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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