/etc/shutdown.allow doesn't seem to work to well, or at least as you might expect. The easiest thing I have found is to use sudo and set command aliases in /etc/sudoers to limit users to the specific commands (and command forms) that I want to allow. I believe the man pages are pretty good for explaining, as I recall.
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Kalusha) writes: > How can I give my users or a group permision to > shutdown and halt the machine? > > I have added /etc/shutdown.allow containing the users > names, as per Running Linux 3rd Ed. page 77. (I > seperated the names with newlines.) > > This did not work. I notice that the group and world > permission bits for reading and executing shutdown are > on but still no go. When I try to shutdown as a > normal user is says I have to be root or superuser. > > Your help is appreciated. > > ASIDE: > Note for you security concious peeps, the machine is > in my home no networked and the users are my family > members. > > Markout. -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 *
