Am Sam, 2002-11-16 um 12.39 schrieb Sandip P Deshmukh: > hello all > > i know i am asking a basic question. but i could not locate the answer > on my own. > > i just want to allow a particular user to shutdown the system. anyway, > control alter delete sequence works for all users. and i will rather > allow a proper shutdown. > > how do i implement this?
As always there is more than one way: - change the group of /sbin/shutdown to the new group "shutdown" - change permissions of /sbin/shutdown to 750 - set SUID Bit of /sbin/shutdown (chmod u+s) - add the user to the group "shutdown" OR man sudo -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
