On Jan 4, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote:

On 2006-01-04 08:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what you put was let wheel group run the shutdown command as
vuk....you want to replace vuk with root.

There we go, thank you! For the benefit of the archives, this is what
I got in the end and which works (\t is tab):

%wheel\tALL=(root)\tNOPASSWD: /usr/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper

I can now shut down and reboot from within the GUI, and it doesn't
seem to have opened any obvious other security holes.

well, except ANY user in your wheel group can shut down your box.....not saying that's a bad thing, but you need to know who all is in it...

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