Re: Linux shutdown

[Dave Aronson <spamtrap.secfocus () dja mailme org>]

Pablo Gietz <pablo.gietz () nuevobersa com ar> wrote:

> Do you know how to do a Linux (clear) shutdown without root
> privileges from login screen?
> I want to give a user the privilege of shutdown the server without
> being root.

This depends what kind of login screen you've got.  Plain text?  Forget 
it.  Graphical?  Depending exactly which, you may be able to config it 
so that shutdown (and possibly reboot, and some other system actions) do 
not require the root password.  However, that is generally not so 
fine-grained as to be on a per-user basis -- if he can, all can.

Try looking instead into setting up a group of users who can use certain 
commands, such as shutdown.  Check out sudo.

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