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Date:      Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:49:06 +0100
From:      Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [6.3] Assigning "shutdown" to eg. Syst?
Message-ID:  <7.0.1.0.2.20090105034832.062efa78@free.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20081223163910.I29108@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
References:  <20081222195940.A4A4B1065697@hub.freebsd.org> <20081223155700.O29108@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <18768.30870.452544.128722@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20081223163910.I29108@sola.nimnet.asn.au>

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At 07:08 23/12/2008, Ian Smith wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Robert Huff wrote:
>  > Ian Smith writes:
>  >
>  > >  Or let your dad login with his own account and password.  Just
>  > >  add him to the operator group so that he can run /sbin/shutdown.
>  >
>  >      If that's the only priveledged command he needs ... is there a
>  > reason "sudo" isn't a better answer?
>
>Well, it's certainly another answer :)
>
>The only other thing being in group operator lets you run, apart from
>what you've added into /etc/devfs.{conf,rules} is /sbin/mksnap_ffs ..

Thanks everyone for the tips. I got sidetracked, and forgot to reply. 




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