Re: temporary su login

2007-09-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 06:43:33AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tamouh wrote: Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without

RE: temporary su login

2007-09-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tamouh wrote: Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even allow login via ssh

RE: temporary su login

2007-09-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that box ie it's

RE: temporary su login

2007-09-06 Thread Tamouh H.
Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that

temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Robin Becker
My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that box ie it's purely key based. --

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 5, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even allow

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Bahman M.
Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that box ie it's

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Danielisz Laszlo
After installing sudo read sudoers.sample (/usr/local/etc/sudoers.sample) - Original Message From: Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 6:37:51 PM Subject: temporary su login My collocation supplier is about to move our

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root operator 15728 30 pa# 2006 /sbin/shutdown chmod 4710 /sbin/shutdown and add user to operator group On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 18:50:21 Bahman M. wrote: Robin Becker wrote: At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that box ie it's purely key based. I'm wondering how would you want to change a system to which you don't have access? Or did I misunderstood something? He's using

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Bahman M.
Mel wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2007 18:50:21 Bahman M. wrote: Robin Becker wrote: At present I don't even allow login via ssh on that box ie it's purely key based. I'm wondering how would you want to change a system to which you don't have access? Or did I misunderstood something?

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 5, 2007, at 10:37 AMSep 5, 2007, Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Robin Becker
Eric Crist wrote: I'm sure nobody will mention this, so I will. On most systems with support ACPI, your colo provider can simply press the power button on the front of your server. FreeBSD's kernel will pick up the signal and shut down cleanly. Once you're moved, they can press

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robin Becker wrote: Eric Crist wrote: I'm sure nobody will mention this, so I will. On most systems with support ACPI, your colo provider can simply press the power button on the front of your server. FreeBSD's kernel will pick up the signal and shut down cleanly. Once you're