I find it goofy when changes in permissions take effect. You might have to
start a fresh konsole/xterm or logout before it works.
On Saturday 02 June 2001 02:17 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote:
> Stephen Boulet wrote:
> > 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
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I located both the shutdown and the halt
> commands in the /sbin directory, changed their groups to shutdown (after I
> created the group), and added the user to that group. However, when I
> attempt to run the shutdown command, I get an error saying
> shutdown: must be root
> So then I tried the halt. Again, I get the following error
> halt: must be superuser
>
> Both of these commands I have manually entered at the command line to
> ensure they were working before I attempted to create any aliases
> Here is the output from ls -l for both the shutdown and halt commands
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root shutdown 15452 Mar 8 02:37 shutdown*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root shutdown 7848 Mar 8 02:37 halt*
>
> Darcy
