How to allow certain non-root users to reboot??
 

Hello,

I have a cluster and I want to allow certain users to have the ability to reboot the system but I do not want them to have root access. I am using Suse9.0. Can I restrict this permission to allowing reboot only if the users is logged in locally?

Thanks,
jdaniel

You may want to look at the sudo package. If you've got APM support set up correctly, you can also configure the power button to do a soft reboot by editing the /etc/inittab file.

You can set up sudo to allow certain (or all) users access to otherwise root-only commands such as reboot and halt. You can also specify from where they can do this - only from the local computer, or from remote locations (as in when they are logged in through ssh).


Håkan