RE: Allow a user to shutdown

["Kurc, Marcin A." <makurc@cooperstandard.com>]

man shutdown

ACCESS CONTROL
       shutdown  can  be called from init(8) when the magic keys
CTRL-ALT-DEL are pressed,
       by creating an appropriate entry in /etc/inittab. This means that
everyone who  has
       physical  access to the console keyboard can shut the system down. To
prevent this,
       shutdown can check to see if an authorized user is logged in on one
of the  virtual
       consoles. If shutdown is called with the -a argument (add this to the
invocation of
       shutdown in /etc/inittab), it checks to see if the file
/etc/shutdown.allow is pre­
       sent.   It  then compares the login names in that file with the list
of people that
       are logged in on a virtual console (from  /var/run/utmp).  Only  if
one  of  those
       authorized users or root is logged in, it will proceed. Otherwise it
will write the
       message

       shutdown: no authorized users logged in

       to the (physical) system console. The format of  /etc/shutdown.allow
is  one  user
       name  per  line.  Empty lines and comment lines (prefixed by a #) are
allowed. Cur­
       rently there is a limit of 32 users in this file.

       Note that if /etc/shutdown.allow is not present, the -a argument is
ignored.


Marcin Kurc
CAD Systems Administrator
Cooper-Standard Automotive 

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Kirk [mailto:patrick@kirks.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:24 AM
To: debuser
Subject: Allow a user to shutdown


Hi all,

I want my son to be able to shutdown the computer but don't want him
being able to access my files.

How do I give him these privileges?

Thanks in advance,
-- 


Patrick


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