On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:40:38AM +0200, Armando wrote: > On 07/28/2010 12:34 AM, Carson Harding wrote: > > Put the user in the operators group and they can run the shutdown > > command. So "shutdown -hp now" pretty much does a "halt". > > just to get the point: is this more "permissive" then the proposed > solution of the sudo without password? to be more precise: does this > permit also the user to execute other privileged commands? >
Yes. The operator group is allowed to read whole disk devices and partitions (for doing backups with dump). Just go with sudo. -- Janusz Gumkowski http://www.am.torun.pl/~ja
