From: Rafer@gmx.de
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] non-sudo way for user to run shutdown -h now? (or any equivalent)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:05:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507202206.04733.Rafer@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b05072010296257e670@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 20 July 2005 19:29, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get my mythfrontend box to allow a user to shut the
> machine down without the use of a keyboard. We are only using remote
> controls. suso doesn't seem to be an option because it requires a
> password. (AFAICT)
>
> Is there some other way that I could make this work?
>
> I took a look at the permissions on /sbin/shutdown itself. It seems
> to be executable by everyone and still doesn't allow anyone other than
> to run it. Is there a way to make that program executable by everyone
> so that sudo is not required? Or maybe there's some similar program to
> shutdown that I could emerge?
>
> There's only two accounts on this machine - root & mythtv - and
> it's within the mythtv account that I want to be able to shut the
> machine down using a remote control only.
>
> Thanks for any and all ideas.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
Maybe with Console Aliases ?
Like This ->http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Powerdown_on_shutdown_-h
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-20 17:29 [gentoo-user] non-sudo way for user to run shutdown -h now? (or any equivalent) Mark Knecht
2005-07-20 17:47 ` Richard Fish
2005-07-20 18:06 ` Mark Knecht
2005-07-20 19:16 ` Wade Brown
2005-07-20 21:15 ` Richard Fish
2005-07-20 21:17 ` Richard Fish
2005-07-21 1:49 ` Iain Buchanan
2005-07-20 20:05 ` Rafer [this message]
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