sudo. That's what it's for. You can give them permission to execute only a controlled shutdown command.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Sue Sivets > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:31 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: shutdown/reboot question > > Is there any way to give a user the ability to shutdown and reboot a > Suse z/linux system without giving him the root password? In simple > terms, one of my users is asking for the root password so he can reboot > the machine when he needs to because the project he's working on has > crashed and generally caused a lot of problems. I found a couple of > notes from 2007 that were about a shutdown userid on a Redhat system. > Will something like that work on a Suse10 system, or is there a better > way of accomplishing what I need? If it will work, can someone tell me > what I need to do in order to make it work? > > I was thinking about using SU, but as far as I know, he would still > need > the root password, and then I'm back where I started. Is there a way to > give him some kind of alternate root password that doesn't open up the > whole ball of wax? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
