On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:33:59PM -0400, Matthew Szudzik wrote:
|  /sbin/halt

<SNIP>

| Does anyone currently use the operator group for anything, or is it just a
| historical vestige?  Would there be anything wrong with giving the
| operator enough hardware access to run the commands above?

If you're in operator, you can at least shutdown or reboot your system
with /sbin/shutdown (which is setuid root and executable by those in
operator).

That's at least one of your list ;)

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

PS: if you feel you must use halt; alias halt="/sbin/shutdown -h now"

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