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From: sjl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Steve J Lacey)
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Subject: Re: Non-su halt?
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In article <1746@brchh104.bnr.ca> davee@cyclone.mitre.org (D. N. Edwards) writes:


davee> I have a couple of machines going on a road trip soon.  I'd like to know
davee> if there's an easy way to allow non-su users to 'halt' the machines.  I've
davee> changed group protections on halt and init, but I always get the error
davee> "Init: can't idle init."  We're running SunOS 4.0.3.  Any tips
davee> appreciated!

Have an entry in the password file with the shell as /etc/halt and uid 0.

Steve J Lacey, Systems Group.      (In my opinion, my opinions are just that.)
Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine,
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