it's chmod not chown - but that fixed the problem. Brilliant - thanks! :)
Not too worried about any users being able to power the computer off -
nothing essential on that, just the frontend, and there's only 2 users -
"root" and "piers" and nothing else :)
Thanks very much for your help again!
Regards - Piers
Nick wrote:
some distros have a prog called consolehelper or something like that that
may help. if you don't mind all users having the ability to reboot/halt
the box you can just do chown +s /sbin/halt or whatever you are calling
(/sbin/reboot is generally a symlink to halt).
then of course /sbin isn't usually in a user's PATH, so you will need to
modify PATH or just specify the full path when using the command (e.g. run
/sbin/reboot instead of just "reboot").
Hello all,
Mythfrontend is set to turn off my computer using the command "halt".
Mythfrontend is run as an non-root user - in this case user "piers" - so
when I try to exit MythTV, and I select "Yes, exit and shutdown" - it
jsut says "Command not found". Obviously this command isn't available
to non-root users. So how do I enable the user "piers" to be able to
shut down the computer without opening up too many obvious security holes?
Thanks very much for your help in advance
Regards - Piers
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