Re: Allow a user to shutdown
Hi !
On 09 Apr 2002 15:23:34 +0100
Patrick Kirk <patrick@kirks.net> wrote:
> 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?
I use the sudo approach and am quite lucky with it.
Therefore i have these lines in /etc/sudoers:
User_Alias SHUTDOWNERS=markus
# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN=/sbin/shutdown -[hkr] now
# User privilege specification
SHUTDOWNERS ALL=SHUTDOWN,NOPASSWD: ALL
You do this with visudo as root. Read the man page for sudo !
After you have done this, you can call shutdown like this
sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now
or make an alias
alias shutdown=sudo /sbin/shutdown sudo
Generally, sudo is preferrable for all things like that. You have great
controll and great possibilities.
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Markus Grunwald
Registered Linux User Nr 101577
http://counter.li.org http://www.grunwald.2xs.de
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