You did add your users to the group shutdown, right?
--stephen
On Saturday 02 June 2001 02:39 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote:
> Stephen Boulet wrote:
> > I find it goofy when changes in permissions take effect. You might have
> > to start a fresh konsole/xterm or logout before it works.
> >
> > On Saturday 02 June 2001 02:17 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote:
> > > Stephen Boulet wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 02 June 2001 01:24 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote:
> > > > > Hello
> > > > > I know that it isn't a good idea to give normal users root
> > > > > access, but I need to set up a couple of Mandrake boxes (they will
> > > > > only be in text mode, as these will be remote terminals to a Unix
> > > > > network) so that a normal user can shut down without having to
> > > > > login as root. The process needs to be as simple as possible, to
> > > > > prevent the user from messing it up
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you
> > > > >
> > > > > Darcy Brodie
> > > >
> > > > You can make the shutdown command part of a group (say the shutdown
> > > > group).
> > > >
> > > > You can make 'shutdown' be an alias for shutdown -h now or so if you
> > > > want.
> > > >
> > > > -- Stephen
> > >
> > > Thanks for the suggestion. I located both the shutdown and the halt
> > > commands in the /sbin directory, changed their groups to shutdown
> > > (after I created the group), and added the user to that group.
> > > However, when I attempt to run the shutdown command, I get an error
> > > saying
> > > shutdown: must be root
> > > So then I tried the halt. Again, I get the following error
> > > halt: must be superuser
> > >
> > > Both of these commands I have manually entered at the command line to
> > > ensure they were working before I attempted to create any aliases
> > > Here is the output from ls -l for both the shutdown and halt commands
> > >
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root shutdown 15452 Mar 8 02:37
> > > shutdown* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root shutdown 7848 Mar 8
> > > 02:37 halt*
> > >
> > > Darcy
>
> That is understandable, I guess. However, since I made the changes, I have
> not only logged out, but also rebooted Linux completely. Still not working
>
> Darcy
