Your best bet is to use the "sudo" program or some such. You can establish groups of users and allow them to run predefined programs as root by feeding sudo their OWN password.
For sanity sake, set your EDITOR environment variable to the editor of your liking and then use the "visudo" command to edit the file which defines the permissions - visudo will check for syntax errors, very important for a tool which can allow some powerful permissions. Once configured, a permitted user merely types "sudo reboot" and feeds it his/her password. Voila! --Pete _______________________________________________________________ Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote: > > Is there a way for a user without root priveleges to cleanly unmount the > root file system and shutdown the computer? > > I've been running 'init 0' as root before turning off the box, but I > don't want to have to give out the root password to my family (it's bad > enough that I know it!) just so they can turn the thing off when I'm not > around. We'd rather not leave it on when it is not in use. > > Thanks, > Rikki > > ******************************************************************************* > > If you have already paid your bill, please disregard this notice. > > ******************************************************************************* > > >
