Re: shutdown permission to users?

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

	Subject: shutdown permission to users?
	Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:41:16AM -0700

In reply to:Mark Kalusha

Quoting Mark Kalusha(visualgravity@yahoo.com):
> 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.
> 

>From man 8 shutdown

shutdown -a  # Use /etc/shutdown.allow

Have you tried this?
-- 
It works! Now if only I could remember what I did...
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