try setting the permissions to 4777 not just 777

Hal

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Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:46 PM
Subject: problem with permissions


> How can I assign permission to a user "mike" to be able to shutdown the
> computer.
>
> I have tried to create a group and assign the group to the shutdown
command
> using chown, tried changing the permissions to 777 or rwxrwxrwx using
chmod
> shutdown, this doesn't work tells me I still need to be root. I have
edited
> the sudoers file to allow "mike" ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL this doesn't help.
>
> can someone tell me how to make user "mike" use the shutdown command
>
>
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