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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2002 01:22:00 +0200 (EET)
From:      Bernie <Bernie_X@myrealbox.com>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc:        Dimitri T <midiostri@yahoo.co.uk>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: shutdown
Message-ID:  <20020127012015.X4706-100000@BLAST>
In-Reply-To: <20020127122850.R823@k7.mavetju.org>

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On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> 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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i was looking at the same for 'halt'

-r-xr-xr-x  4 root  wheel     228812 Dec 27 11:24 halt

seems everyone can use it...


Regards

--Bernie


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