On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:21:55PM +0200, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:
> 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.
They can also halt -fp.
Instant shutdown, no unmount or anything.
I'd go with a wrapper script, say:
# wrapinit
if [ x"$1" = x"0" ] || [ x"$1" = x"6" ]; then
init "$1"
else
echo "Usage: wrapinit {0,6}" >&2
exit 1
fi
# end wrapinit
wrapinit 0 - shutdown & poweroff
wrapinit 6 - shutdown & reboot
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