According to Mike Werner: While burning my CPU.
>
> Don't think I've seen sudo mentioned yet, so I'll throw that in as a
> possibility. Let's anyone do whatever they are listed in the sudoers
> file as having permission to do.
>
> Here's an extract from my sudoers file:
> # User specification
> root ALL=ALL
> mike ALL=/sbin/shutdown
>
> root does whatever he wants, mike can do shutdown - and only shutdown -
> as the superuser. Here's the catch - mike can only do that by using
> *mike's* password. When shutdown asks for the password, the password
> for the user performing the shutdown must be entered.
>
> The sudoers file has to be edited with the visudo command - won't allow
> editing with a regular editor. Also, man sudo to see how this file
> works (i.e. what each bit means).
I belive the question concerned involves a "local-machine" pysical access to
the keyboard, so just use the three-finger-salute, ctrl-alt-delete
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Regards Richard.
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