On Saturday 02 June 2001 01:24 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote:
> Hello
> I know that it isn't a good idea to give normal users root access,
> but I need to set up a couple of Mandrake boxes (they will only be in
> text mode, as these will be remote terminals to a Unix network) so that
> a normal user can shut down without having to login as root. The
> process needs to be as simple as possible, to prevent the user from
> messing it up
>
> Thank you
>
> Darcy Brodie
You can make the shutdown command part of a group (say the shutdown group).
You can make 'shutdown' be an alias for shutdown -h now or so if you want.
-- Stephen
