how to give a user right to shutdown?
 

I'm working in an office nad so I cannot give root password to anyone in the office. So I have created a user in my linux which has some rights to work on machine. But i don't know how to give that user the right to shutdown or reboot the machine. Would anyone help me in this. thanx in advance. ;)

i am not realy sure, but you can try to set the SUID-Bit on shutdown with
chmod +s /sbin/shutdown

Howzit

in /etc create a file called shutdown.allow place their names in this file, they must use cmd: shutdown -a

chow

This isn't network related, Moved to Linux General