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Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:32:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        wghicks@bellsouth.net (W Gerald Hicks)
Cc:        cchrstns@sdln.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shutdown
Message-ID:  <199902091632.LAA05488@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990209112229E.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> from W Gerald Hicks at "Feb 9, 99 11:22:29 am"

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W Gerald Hicks wrote,
> No you don't :-)

Yes, I do. ;P

> My shutdown is 'r-sr-xr--' root/operator as installed.  Being a
> member of the operator group extends a shutdown priviledge that
> won't disappear after a 'make world'.

My users are NIS users. There is no good NIS mechanism (that I am
aware of) to put them all in a group only defined on the local
machine. I also do not need then having access to any other
operator-only commands. They just need to be able to bring the machine
down.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com

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