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" -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]