giving a user poweroff permission

Goatdemon · 07-17-2003, 07:10 PM

im letting a friend use my laptop for a while, i did adduser, set it up, tested it out myself, went to call a poweroff, then shutdown, then reboot and commands are not found... did /sbin/poweroff and shutdown... you must be root to do this. how can i give my new user permission to shutdown the computer? ie group etc. i've gone to tldp and man useradd... no help

BigBadPenguin · 07-17-2003, 07:47 PM

Goatdemon
I know sudo can help you with this, but I can't tell you exactly how it works... check out "man sudo". Sorry i can't help more, but its a start.
-bbp

Noryungi · 07-18-2003, 03:45 AM

Only one answer for you: "sudo".

You can give your friend the right to shutdown your laptop with the proper entry in /etc/sudoers.

Here are a couple of articles for you, that may help you (based on FreeBSD, but should be applicable to Slackware easily):

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002...y_Daemons.html
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002...y_Daemons.html

Also, using groups may help:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002...y_Daemons.html

Hope this helps...

ghostdancer · 07-18-2003, 04:33 AM

If I remember correctly, you can set something in KDM such that it will allow any user to shutdown the system via the local console.

Maybe you should look into the Login Manager for KDE (if you are using KDE).

Goatdemon · 07-18-2003, 02:53 PM

thanks, ill check sudo out.

BearClaw · 07-18-2003, 08:30 PM

This might work: Create a file called: /etc/shutdown.allow , that lists all the users who are allowed to shutdown your box.

BC

figadiablo · 07-18-2003, 09:06 PM

try as root:
chmod u+s /sbin/halt
then as a regular user shutdown doing
halt

bongski55 · 07-19-2003, 06:21 AM

I think I posted a similar question before(here ) and the solution is the GDM -gnome desktop manager which is the default for slackware. In GDM you can display shutdown and reboot together with the login GUI. Try is by typing in a console 'telinit 4'.