Re: shutdown
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:21:12PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> > Have a look at using sudo, to execute any commands you want as root.
>
> Speaking of sudo, is there a menu/X/KDE driven way of managing the
> sudoers file? I'm not having much luck with adding things in there
manually
> and I'd rather have something slightly more automated anyway.
Just in case you couldn't find the menu-driven software, here's my
/etc/sudoers telling users okidz & shutdown to be allowed to execute
kill & shutdown commands without password:
# Host alias specification
Host_Alias LOCAL = okidz
# User alias specification
User_Alias SHUTUSERS = okidz,shutdown
# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown
Cmnd_Alias KILL = /bin/kill
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
SHUTUSERS LOCAL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN,KILL
Problem is, even if you get sudo working, gdm can't be killed by:
kill `cat /var/run/gdm.pid`; because it would be restarted.
Replacing (user) shutdown's /bin/bash with a shutdown script in
/etc/passwd wouldn't work; it seems that gdm doesn't execute the default
login shell.
Oki
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