Re: shutdown/halt as user
In article <[🔎] 20020215001838.GA924@doorstop.net>,
Vineet Kumar <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net> wrote:
>* David Wright (ichbin@shadlen.org) [020214 13:58]:
>>
>> > How can I let a normal user use the "halt" or "shutdown" command?
>>
>> All the responses to this query have been ugly hacks. The right way to do
>> this this (put on flame-retardant suit here) is the way RedHat does: make
>> the halt binary call up pam for authenticaton and authorization and allow
>> the sysadmin to configure access in /etc/pam.d/halt. RedHat's code is GPL
>> -- why don't we just steal it?
>
>Good call. How about filing a wishlist bug to sysvinit?
Stuff like this doesn't belong in sysvinit. It belongs in an
optional package that can call shutdown, not in shutdown itself.
Let alone in the halt binary!
Mike.
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