Proposal of new group
I suggest a new group `power'
and setting privileges of shutdown and halt (reboot is symlink to halt) to:
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root power 6876 Jan 12 1999 /sbin/halt
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root power 13492 Jan 12 1999 /sbin/shutdown
(chmod u+s)(chmod o-x)(chown root.power)
This group would be very useful for desktop machines for people who
set computer on (via switch), login as common user and do what they have to
and then stop the computer via command (`halt' or `shutdown -h now')
or via it's interface gshutdown. Now this problem is lacally solved inelegantly
by sudo or by special root account called ex: halt (shell=/sbin/halt) or
by even less secure methods because of lack of the standard.
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