On Wednesday 20 July 2005 19:29, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to get my mythfrontend box to allow a user to shut the > machine down without the use of a keyboard. We are only using remote > controls. suso doesn't seem to be an option because it requires a > password. (AFAICT) > > Is there some other way that I could make this work? > > I took a look at the permissions on /sbin/shutdown itself. It seems > to be executable by everyone and still doesn't allow anyone other than > to run it. Is there a way to make that program executable by everyone > so that sudo is not required? Or maybe there's some similar program to > shutdown that I could emerge? > > There's only two accounts on this machine - root & mythtv - and > it's within the mythtv account that I want to be able to shut the > machine down using a remote control only. > > Thanks for any and all ideas. > > Cheers, > Mark
Maybe with Console Aliases ? Like This ->http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Powerdown_on_shutdown_-h -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
