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Re: Use of telinit by regular users




On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Cameron Dale wrote:

> I am not a member of this mailing list, so please copy me on all replies.
>
> I have a 4 year old laptop running potato (2.2r6). I use the various
> runlevels to
> control the services that are running. I want a regular user to be able to
> switch runlevels, but telinit seems to be able to only be run by root.
>
> Is there a way to get around this?

sudo, or maybe calife or super, perhaps with a gtk or gnome
frontend... presumably you know what you are doing and have a rescue
floppy handy, so I won't go into the hazards (probably couldn't do
'em justice anyways :)


- Bruce



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