how to give a user right to shutdown?

gagan_fzks · 11-12-2003, 02:53 AM

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.

Quis · 11-12-2003, 04:26 AM

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

aqoliveira · 11-12-2003, 04:57 AM

Howzit

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

chow

david_ross · 11-12-2003, 12:29 PM

This isn't network related, Moved to Linux General