Re: Proposal of new group
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Tomasz Wêgrzanowski wrote:
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: > >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.
What's inelegant about sudo? Also, see the "ctrlaltdel" function of
/etc/inittab.
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