Re: [newbie] Other user except root can shutdown server?

[Stefan Dozier]

At 04:16 PM 5/6/99 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi:
>   I have added a user named "lyn" as group of root. But the command of
>"shutdown" cannt be used by "lyn". How to assign the right of root to "lyn".

I accomplished that feat issuing the "chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown"

Now my regular user as well as root can perform system shutdown.

There's also some functions under Linuxconf, that allows you to assign
shutdown priviledges to regular users, but it never worked for me while
using Redhat Linux v5.1, so I used the above procedure to accomplish it.


Probably not the best way to do it, but it works.....


  
Stefan Dozier
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