On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:32:01AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > On 08/01/03 Lares Weaselle wrote: Hi
> > > I would like to be able to reboot/halt my laptop while a user. I > > don't like to have to superuser to do so. Any thoughts? > > If you use ACPI emerge acpid-1.0.2-r2 (you need -r2 for a working > default config) you can poweroff your laptop with the power button. Have > a look at /etc/acpi/default.sh, you can define any action there. > > If you want to use the commands halt/poweroff/reboot as user you can > either use sudo or set them SUID (security risk) with > chmod u+s <filename> I've seen linux systems with a shutdown group before, add any users you want to be able to shutdown/reboot your machine and chown the commands to root:shutdown and make them executable by the shutdown group. You'll also need to add /sbin to those users' $PATHs. Tom > > Marius > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list