Re: user shutdown?
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:42:08PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
>
> I have never looked into this before, but is there a way that I (just a
> joeblow user) can shutdown my system without having to become root first?
>
> I looked at man for shutdown, there isthe -a option. I added my user to
> the /etc/shutdown.allow file, but that doesn't work.
>
> I guess I could chown /sbin/shutdown, but that doesn't seem like the best
> way to do this.
If you're running X, one easy way is to use kdm (or perhaps gdm), which
gives a button for shutdown (and has to be suid root anyways to allow you
to log in as any user).
--
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
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