couldn't he create a group (say...stopgrp) and put all the people with
permission to stop the machine in it and give the group exec. permissions on
the reboot or shutdown commands?
On Friday 13 July 2001 01:30, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
If you're in a login manager like KDM or GDM, anybody
Dan--
So the question here: what would be the best way, keeping security in
mind, to allow users other than myself the privaledge of shutdown -r now?
One Dan to another...
On my home machine (which for the time being is running Caldera eDesktop
2.4--but which will be Mandrake 8.0 before
Dan,
Your best bet is probably going to be to use sudo, and set them up such
that shutdown is one of the commands they can run.
Michael
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Michael Viron
Registered Linux User #81978
Senior Systems Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
At 11:26 PM 07/12/2001 EDT,
snip
If you're at the console, you can use sudo or a simple Ctrl+Alt+Del to
reboot. The Three-Fingered-Salute is safe, since it is equivalent to a
shutdown -r now.
snip
Sridhar Dan,
The use of CTRL + ALT + DEL at a console without logging in depends on
what security level you chose during
