On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Robert Tompkins wrote: > I am fairly sure you could just create a script that had the shutdown > commands in it, then setuid the file (which is owned by root). Then you > should be able to run the file as a normal user except it would get > elevated to root privleges when ran. I don't have a beowulf in front of me > right now so i can't test it but i do remeber doing something simlar > before and having it work. For help with setuid and setguid check out the > man page for chmod.
That shouldn't work. Setuid scripts are a major security risk, and most flavors of *nix will ignore the suid bit if it's on a script. Damian Menscher -- -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=- -=#| 4602 Beckman, VMIL/MS, Imaging Technology Group:(217)244-3074 |#=- -=#| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
