Brad Sawatzky wrote:
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.
see: http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
Add with the visudo command a line like the following to the /etc/sudoers file
john hostname = NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot
and you can use the comands without password.
Regards,
Iwan
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