Dear,
The previously solution is nice.
1) Add a group which are designed to do only the shutdown job.
2) Add required user to the group.
3) Write a bash program and name it nicely, say, "shutdown" and write
shutdown command in it. Place it a location where everyone's path includes
me.
4) Grant the permission of your bash progam to the others (don't let them
able to read or write, just permission to execution!)
Solved?
Yours,
Simon.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tzafrir Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Darcy Brodie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Mandrake expert list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Darcy Brodie wrote:
>
> > Thanks for all the suggestions. I did finally set the halt and shutdown
> > commands to UID root, and that has solved my problems.
>
> I believe that you are over-trusting your local users. 'halt' and
> 'shutdown' have a couple of dangerous switches (halt -f, shutdown -n,
> shutdown -f, shutdown -F)
>
> Why exactly do you need users to shut down the system from the
> command-line? Remote or local users?
>
> What's wrong with pressing ctrl-alt-del from the console?
>
> > > > >>>>>>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
>
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
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> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
>
