couldn't he create a group (say...stopgrp) and put all the people with
permission to stop the machine in it and give the group exec. permissions on
the "reboot" or shutdown commands?
On Friday 13 July 2001 01:30, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> If you're in a login manager like KDM or GDM, anybody can shutdown by
> clicking the appropriate button.
>
> If you're at the console, you can use sudo or a simple Ctrl+Alt+Del to
> reboot. The Three-Fingered-Salute is safe, since it is equivalent to a
> "shutdown -r now".
>
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Seeings how I have a multi-user system (my brothers, mainly) I need to
> > make an easy way for them to shutdown the computer, so they can restart
> > into Windows. I could then put a link to this on the program menu for
> > easy access.
> >
> > So the question here: what would be the best way, keeping security in
> > mind, to allow users other than myself the privaledge of "shutdown -r
> > now"?
> >
> > Dan
