Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..

[darkknight]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, James Stewart wrote:
> On Tue 27 Jul, Matt Stegman wrote:
> > /etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to
> > shutdown the system.  It may not be present on your system yet; you'll
> > have to create it.
> 
> My shutdown.allow file is:
> 
> "james
> jim
> root"
> 
> but only root can issue the shutdown command. When I try it as either other
> user I get the error "bash: shutdown: command not found"
> 
> James.
> 

shutdown is actully a program in the /sbin directory, you will need to put
/sbin in the path for the other users or try /sbin/shutdown see if that works.

John Love
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