Re: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:34, Ben Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:00, Martin Jungowski wrote:
>
> > You can also set SUID on shutdown and add a Launcher to your Panel or
> > Desktop in GNome.
>
> Managed to SUID Root on shutdown (chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown) and can
> shutdown from a command line but how do I add to the launcher. I tried
> one with the command '/sbin/shutdown -h now' but it douse not work.
I really wouldn't recommend this if you care about security the tiniest
bit. Do you want EVERYONE (even remote users) to be able to shutdown
_your_ system while _you_ are working with it?
David
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