Re: Very general shutdown question

From: Dick Davies (rasputnik_at_hellooperator.net)
Date: 02/07/05

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    Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:49:22 +0000
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    * Steven <freebsd@gizm0.org> [0203 23:03]:
    > Hello Ned,
    >
    > you can add the user to the operator group. it is possible to run
    > shutdown then (but not halt etc).

    Be caneful of that, I think operator has other privileges too
    (can read from any disk for starters).

     
    > You could also create a shutdown user with a login shell pointing to a
    > shutdown script.

    But that won't work if they still don't have permission to run it... 

    -- 
'...and then we wrote scripts to write the configs for us, and using
these scripts, we made mistakes in a faster, more automated manner.'
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