On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:36:01 +0100 Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gentoo-users, > > I'm facing this problem: I *have to* allow one non-root user > to shutdown my server remotely (ssh). I know I could create > account for him and add his login into /etc/shutdown.allow but > I do not want to grant him full shell access. > > I thought about adding "/sbin/shutdown -a h now" as his shell > into /etc/passwd so that right after he authenticates himself, > shutdown is called. But I'm not sure something like this is > possible (shutdown must be probably called from shel)... > > Or is there maybe some other way how to create very restricted > account where user could not do anything else but call shutdown? > > Jarry
pdmenu it's an ncurses menu-driven shell thingy, and you create one menu with one command "shutdown" The menu items calls a wrapper script that actually runs "shutdown && logout" so that his session isn't left hanging in mid air. We use pdmenu extensively for the not-so-clever first line support folk and it works well. From Windows they use PuTTY and all they see is a menu. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
