Re: [uug] More Gentoo questions

Ryan Bowman Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:18:54 -0700

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll try them out shortly, however, I suddenly developed an odd problem. Typing halt now has the effect of reboot. I checked that symlink /usr/bin/halt still points to /sbin/halt, so why is it suddenly rebooting every time I shut down?

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From: Grant Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [uug] More Gentoo questions
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:04:22 -0600
On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 11:02 AM, Ryan Bowman wrote:
From: "Matt W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "BYU Unix Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [uug] More Gentoo questions
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 08:48:05 -0600
From: "Ryan Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So I took Mike Halcrow's advice and modified the sudoers file so I can
sudo
> halt, but that doesn't solve the problem of exactly, because I want a
normal
> user to type 'halt' and have it work.
Assuming you have the sudoers file correct, can't your normal users type:
>sudo halt
><password>
Or is this more than what you wanted?
Matt W.
It's more. I want to type 'halt' Nothing more. I suppose that sudo halt is okay, but it's 5 more characters that I need to type, not counting my password which it doesn't always ask for.
There is a rpm for Redhat called usermode (at least that is what it was called in RedHat 7.3) that accomplishes this. Basically it uses PAM stuff so that regular users can run console apps like 'shutdown' etc. You could probably download this, use rpm2tgz to convert it to a .tar.gz file, and then , in the root directory, do tar xvfz thetarfile.tar.gz

Grant

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