B, Thanks for pointing me in this direction. I got several commands working well this way, but shutdown is still a problem. I added a line as you suggested for the shutdown command, but when I try to shutdown as the user, I get a request for a password. The root password gets rejected and using the user password locks me out of the ability to issue the command. So I have to go back to su-ing to root and then shutting down. I also tried creating /etc/shutdown.allow file with a single line containing the name of the user. No luck. Any other thoughts? Paul On Sunday 18 January 2004 02:51 pm, bascule wrote: > you can use the 'sudo' command to allow a use to issue any particular > command that ordinarily could only be run by root, > you need to edit the /etc/sudoers file to specify what user and what > commands and whether the user needs to specify a password, > to edit this file you need to logon/su to root and run 'visudo' > this opens the file in a mode of vi that will check for errors on the file > upon closing > you will need to read the man pages for 'sudo' and and 'sudoers' but as an > example i added the following to my /etc/sudoers to allow me to run urpmi > without suing to root: > > bascule mycroft = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/urpm*, /usr/bin/urpm* > > note that to run urpmi as bascule i have to issue: > $ sudo /usr/sbin/urpmi > as /usr/sbin is not in the path of my normal user > and that 'mycroft' is the name of my machine > > bascule > > On Sunday 18 Jan 2004 7:31 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: > > How can I allow a single normal user (me) to execute the shutdown command > > without changing the suid bit on the shutdown executable? This can > > obviously be done if I were using a display manager, but I don't. > > TIA > > Paul
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