Subject: shutdown permission to users?
Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:41:16AM -0700
In reply to:Mark Kalusha
Quoting Mark Kalusha([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 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.
>
>From man 8 shutdown
shutdown -a # Use /etc/shutdown.allow
Have you tried this?
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It works! Now if only I could remember what I did...
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