Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:08:04 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [6.3] Assigning "shutdown" to eg. Syst? Message-ID: <20081223163910.I29108@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <18768.30870.452544.128722@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20081222195940.A4A4B1065697@hub.freebsd.org> <20081223155700.O29108@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <18768.30870.452544.128722@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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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 ..
cheers, Ian
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