You may find this old trick works. Create a "captive account", one that does not have a regular shell, rather runs a command - in this case /usr/sbin/shutdown. The account name might be "shutdown". Give it a password that makes sense in your home.
> > 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. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
