On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:32:24 +1000 Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 06:55, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > The problem is that I have a 95yo neighbour who I have set up with > > an old box currently running Redhat 8 and Gnome. But the full Gnome > > desktop is really too much for the box, and I would like to replace > > with a lightweight desktop. I don't think that she would take too > > kindly to the"log in as root, type halt" kind of instruction, so I > > was looking for an alternative. > > Set up sudo to let her userid run the halt command without a password. > Check the sudoers(5) man page, but an untested example would be > username ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt > > Then add a menu entry or a button on your panel that'll run "sudo > /sbin/halt", and you should be sweet. Thanks Pete - I'll give it a try. Alan > > -- > Pete > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
