Re: How to Shutdown as a normal user?
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Teuchteu wrote:
> I created a user with root privileges who just makes a shutdown -h now
> (Well i edit the /etc/passwd file to launch a script that shut down the
> computer). We wave the same at work on Unix platform (we don't have root
> privelege :((
> I'm sure it's far to be the best solution, but it is simple, and easy...
Of course, any user with the shutdown-user password (or everyone if the
password is nulled) can trivially get root privs using 'su <shutdown
userid>'. The correct way to do this is with sudo or equivalent.
(I haven't been following this thread, so forgive me if I'm missing some
assumed condition that makes that invalid.)
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