*- On 18 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "How to give users certain privileges?" > I have set up Debian on four lab computers and would like the students using > them to be able to access our Novell system via ncpmount, etc., as well as > floppies. Additionally, it would be nice if they could shut down without my > intervention. > > Can I simply add them to specific groups which would give them this access, > or is there another way to accomplish it which is more efficient? >
I would add them to special groups. By default for example the /dev/fd0 device has rw access by group floppy. Just add the user to that group for floppy access. > Ah ... one other thought. Ctrl-Alt-Del is a safe reboot as defined, isn't > it? (The computers should be reset into the ... ugh ... WinNT environment > after we use them, for the rest of the masses.) Look in your /etc/inittab, by default I think it is 'shutdown -t1 -h now' so it will halt rather than reboot but all you have to do is edit the file and issue 'telinit q' to reload the /etc/inittab file. > > Thanks for any help! > > > A newbie system administrator, Consider buying Essential System Administration by O'Reilly, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa2/. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." - unknown Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------