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Re: shutdown permission to users?



On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:49:19AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote:
> 
> /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.

Can't you use a file /etc/pam.d/halt, to set permissions for halting? This
may be a vestige left over from my previous linuxppc distribution,
though...
-- 
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/



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