On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:00:20PM -0800, Cameron Dale wrote: > I am not a member of this mailing list, so please copy me on all replies. > > I have a 4 year old laptop running potato (2.2r6). I use the various > runlevels to > control the services that are running. I want a regular user to be able to > switch runlevels, but telinit seems to be able to only be run by root. > > Is there a way to get around this?
Yes. > Before you ask, security is not a concern on my system, I have very few > users, > but I don't want to give them all root access so they can change runlevels. That makes sense. > The only thing I have thought of so far is to use the ctrl-alt-del > keystroke to run > a script (as root), much like it is currently set up to run the shutdown > command. > The script would print a menu of available runlevels, read input from the > user, and then run telinit to change to the appropriate runlevel. I did > this using > the read command for input, but it froze the terminal I was working on. I > think > there was a problem because when ctrl-alt-del was pressed, the script was > run by init, and not by the user on the current terminal, so it doesn't > know where > to get the input from. I'm not very good with bash, so I can't figure it > out. apt-get install sudo man sudo man sudoers It won't fix any ctrl-alt-delete problems, but when configured properly, a user with sufficient permission can do "sudo telinit 5" (or whichever runlevel they want), and after entering their password, telinit will run (and change the runlevel). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
