On Sun, 3 Mar 2019, King Beowulf wrote:
Instead of messing with sudo, you can configure the KDE and Xfce power
manager (and other DEs) to trigger a shutdown command by pressing the
power button. The user needs to be in the 'power' group IIRC.
Ed,
How interesting! I was unaware of this.
For
On 2/27/19 1:54 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Looking at /etc/sudoers I see the example:
> %users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
>
> Will this permit the Sony Vaio user to halt the laptop? I thought I had her
> set up to do this but it did not work today. If the above line allows
> everyone in the
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Shepard
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 3:27 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Smith, Cathy wrote:
> You can just set up an alias in .bashrc or whatever file is used for aliases.
> That's
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Smith, Cathy wrote:
You can just set up an alias in .bashrc or whatever file is used for aliases.
That's what I do for folks here. I have a group set up for people needing to
use a command. I edit the sudoers file once to set things up. It looks like
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> My experience is that sudo expects the command line invocation to look
> like the sudo configuration. So what I'd do is add a function, not an
> alias, t
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote:
My experience is that sudo expects the command line invocation to look
like the sudo configuration. So what I'd do is add a function, not an
alias, to .bashrc:
function halt {
/sbin/shutdown -h now
}
But since "halt" is the name of an actual
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:
Can I set an alias so when she exits X11 to a console all she needs to
type
is
sudo halt
and this will invoke /sbin/shutdown -h now? Gotta' keep in simple here.
Saw a web blog post that suggests I if add
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:
Saw a web blog post that suggests I if add to her ~/.bash_rc the following
alias
alias halt='alias=`sudo ` halt'
all she'd need to type is halt. Does this look workable?
Nah. But this:
alias "sd=sudo "
would allow her to type
sd halt
according to
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:
Can I set an alias so when she exits X11 to a console all she needs to type
is
sudo halt
and this will invoke /sbin/shutdown -h now? Gotta' keep in simple here.
Saw a web blog post that suggests I if add to her ~/.bash_rc the following
alias
alias
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote:
The sudoers(5) man page states,
Also, the host name “localhost” will only match if that is the actual host
name, which is usually only the case for non-networked systems.
Paul,
Ah, I forgot to look at that man page.
You'll want to replace
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:
Looking at /etc/sudoers I see the example:
%users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
Will this permit the Sony Vaio user to halt the laptop? I thought I
had her set up to do this but it did not work today. If the above
line allows everyone in the users
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