Re: shutdown permission to users?
/etc/shutdown.allow doesn't seem to work to well, or at
least as you might expect. The easiest thing I have found
is to use sudo and set command aliases in /etc/sudoers to
limit users to the specific commands (and command forms)
that I want to allow. I believe the man pages are pretty
good for explaining, as I recall.
Paul
visualgravity@yahoo.com (Mark Kalusha) writes:
> How can I give my users or a group permision to
> shutdown and halt the machine?
>
> I have added /etc/shutdown.allow containing the users
> names, as per Running Linux 3rd Ed. page 77. (I
> seperated the names with newlines.)
>
> This did not work. I notice that the group and world
> permission bits for reading and executing shutdown are
> on but still no go. When I try to shutdown as a
> normal user is says I have to be root or superuser.
>
> Your help is appreciated.
>
> ASIDE:
> Note for you security concious peeps, the machine is
> in my home no networked and the users are my family
> members.
>
> Markout.
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