Re: allow users to shutdown
Am Sam, 2002-11-16 um 12.39 schrieb Sandip P Deshmukh:
> hello all
>
> i know i am asking a basic question. but i could not locate the answer
> on my own.
>
> i just want to allow a particular user to shutdown the system. anyway,
> control alter delete sequence works for all users. and i will rather
> allow a proper shutdown.
>
> how do i implement this?
As always there is more than one way:
- change the group of /sbin/shutdown to the new group "shutdown"
- change permissions of /sbin/shutdown to 750
- set SUID Bit of /sbin/shutdown (chmod u+s)
- add the user to the group "shutdown"
OR
man sudo
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