On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:31:11AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:16:06AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Using debian on a stand-alone laptop I usually work as an ordinary > > user and find somewhat awkward the fact that I have to su in order > > to shutdown the PC. Is there a way to power my PC off as a user? > > The other solution is to use `visudo' to edit the `sudoers' file. > If you add a line like this: > > User_Alias TRUSTIES=larry,mo,curley > > and then in addition: > > TRUSTIES ALL=/sbin/shutdown > > the effect will be that users larry, mo and curley will be allowed to > execute the `shutdown' command by doing: > > sudo shutdown -h now > > They will be prompted for a password which of course must be given > correctly before the command is executed. > > Obviously you have to *really* trust larry, mo, and curley for this to > be a reasonable thing to do. But on a machine where there's only root > and you, it hardly seems like such a risk,
In such a situation, you could also put a NOPASSWD entry into sudoers, to avoid having to enter the password: <username> ALL=NOPASSWD; /sbin/shutdown See 'man sudoers' for more possiblities.
