On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Bill Wilson wrote: > I agree 100%. I was just describing what I had done for single user > home setup. Shortly after I posted that message I was regretting not > having suggested a /usr/bin/shutdown script using sudo as a better idea > for many who read the list. Sorry.
how I did it (temporarily) was to add a new group, shutdown. put two trusted users in it, 'chown root.shutdown shutdown', 'chmod 750 shutdown', 'chmod u+s shutdown'. hence, only members of shutdown are allowed to execute it, and it will be run suid root. -- yours etc. [gin & tonic.ucam.org] Tel: 01223 519254 David. Pager: 07654 341140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]