Re: Allowing users to shutdown
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Bill Wilson wrote:
> I agree 100%. I was just describing what I had done for single user
> home setup. Shortly after I posted that message I was regretting not
> having suggested a /usr/bin/shutdown script using sudo as a better idea
> for many who read the list. Sorry.
how I did it (temporarily) was to add a new group, shutdown.
put two trusted users in it, 'chown root.shutdown shutdown', 'chmod 750
shutdown', 'chmod u+s shutdown'.
hence, only members of shutdown are allowed to execute it, and it will be
run suid root.
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