On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:08, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> Same here, had to copy /sbin/shutdown to /bin to make it visible to all 
> users, then chmod a+s /bin/shutdown to suid it. I'm using standard 
> security level, I wonder if in lower security level it's different.
> 
> raffaele
> 

It would be better to set the path in /etc/profile so that it's visible
to all users on the machine instead of copying the binary to another
directory. If the paths aren't set properly, other utilities, functions
and the likes could also be broken...so in fixing the system-wide path
statement, you avoid future problems...

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