Mildy suprised someone hasn't already mentioned this.
There is a program called SUDO, which has a debian package. It allows
selected users to run selected programs as root, without them having to su
to root. It's really easy to use.
I use it on my laptop, both to shut it down, and run APM to susp
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 12:31:30PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote:
> Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
> (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.)
Either use the super or sudo package or install perl-suid and create
a small suid perl scrip
On 8 Apr, Kenneth L. Summers wrote in reply to
> David B. Wilson
>> Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
>> (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.)
>>
>
> The method I tell folks around here to use is to go to a virtual console,
> pre
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, David B Wilson wrote:
> Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
> (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.)
David,
You can do a clean shutdown as a non-root user if you have planned
for it as root. You can set Control-
> Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
> (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.)
>
The method I tell folks around here to use is to go to a virtual console,
press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and watch for the bios screen. Then shut it off.
If the
Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root?
Ctrl+Alt+Del works. If you want to restrict normal users from doing
CAD, then put the allowed users in /etc/shutdown.allow.
Of course, over the network, this doesn't work. You could use the
sudo or super packages, though.
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