Re: Allow a user to shutdown

2002-04-13 Thread Josef Oswald
Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:47:52PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: >> >> to test it I logged in as another user in the console and hit the >> magic keys, instead of giving me the warning that: shutdown: "no >> authorized users logged in" the pc rebooted, so

Re: Allow a user to shutdown

2002-04-13 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:47:52PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: > > to test it I logged in as another user in the console and hit the > magic keys, instead of giving me the warning that: shutdown: "no > authorized users logged in" the pc rebooted, so what is missing here? Was this other user the *

Re: Allow a user to shutdown

2002-04-13 Thread Josef Oswald
"Kurc, Marcin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man shutdown > > ACCESS CONTROL >shutdown can be called from init(8) when the magic keys > CTRL-ALT-DEL are pressed, >by creating an appropriate entry in /etc/inittab. This means that > everyone who has >physical access to

Re: Allow a user to shutdown

2002-04-09 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! On 09 Apr 2002 15:23:34 +0100 Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I want my son to be able to shutdown the computer but don't want him > being able to access my files. > > How do I give him these privileges? I use the sudo approach and am quite lucky with it. Therefore i

Re: Allow a user to shutdown SOLVED

2002-04-09 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 15:23, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I want my son to be able to shutdown the computer but don't want him > being able to access my files. > sudo allows me to configure it the way I want. Many thanks to all. -- Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Allow a user to shutdown

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Jenks
At 10:23 AM 4/9/02, Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, I want my son to be able to shutdown the computer but don't want him being able to access my files. How do I give him these privileges? Thanks in advance, -- Look into the sudo package. chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Allow a user to shutdown

2002-04-09 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 10:23, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I want my son to be able to shutdown the computer but don't want him > being able to access my files. > > How do I give him these privileges? kdm has a nice way of doing this automatically if you are using X, but if your not, I think

RE: Allow a user to shutdown

2002-04-09 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
man shutdown ACCESS CONTROL shutdown can be called from init(8) when the magic keys CTRL-ALT-DEL are pressed, by creating an appropriate entry in /etc/inittab. This means that everyone who has physical access to the console keyboard can shut the system down. To prevent thi