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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:28:50 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Dimitri T <midiostri@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shutdown
Message-ID:  <20020127122850.R823@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020127012029.97046.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com>; from midiostri@yahoo.co.uk on Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:20:29AM %2B0000
References:  <20020127012029.97046.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:20:29AM +0000, Dimitri T wrote:
> is it possible to give a user (other than root) the
> right to shutdown the system?

If you look at the permissions of /sbin/shutdown, you see:
-r-sr-x---  1 root  operator  166304 Sep 19 03:27 /sbin/shutdown

So everybody in the group operator can issue the shutdown command.

Edwin

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