On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 09:36, Hal Kellerman wrote:
> The 4 sets the setuid bit it tells the system to run the program as the file
> owner (:root) instead of as the user who invoked it (mike).
>
> By the way you must be root to set that permission.
To be accurate, you must be the owner of the file
a normal user to run as root. Use it with
extreme caution.
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> What is the 4 for
>
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> Fro
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 14:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How can I assign permission to a user "mike" to be able to shutdown the
> computer.
>
> I have tried to create a group and assign the group to the shutdown command
> using chown, tried changing the permissions to 777 or rwxrwxrwx using chmod
What is the 4 for
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try setting the permissions to 4777 not just 777
Hal
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try setting the permissions to 4777 not just 777
Hal
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> How can I assign permission to a user
> can someone tell me how to make user "mike" use the shutdown command
If you have linuxconf installed you can assign the permissions using the
user config
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How can I assign permission to a user "mike" to be able to shutdown the
computer.
I have tried to create a group and assign the group to the shutdown command
using chown, tried changing the permissions to 777 or rwxrwxrwx using chmod
shutdown, this doesn't work tells me I still need to be root. I
