On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Thomas Deselaers wrote: > I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a good idea > to be able to switch it of as user without being root. > I had two ideas of making this possible. The one is to make it sudo-able and > the other is to put the executable into a special group (e.g. poweroffer) > and then make the binaries suid-root executable for this group and put the > users which ought to be allowed to poweroff the workstation into this group.
You forgot option #3: Have them go to a text console (by shutting down X ot pressing ctrl-alt-F1) and press ctrl-alt-del. By default, this will reboot the machine, but you can go into /etc/inittab, find the lines that say # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now and change it to do whatever you want (like, say, shutdown -h instead of shutdown -r). -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
