Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!raven.alaska.edu!milton!sumax!polari!rwing!seaeast!sunbrk!Usenet
From: Bill.Vermillion@sunbrk.FidoNet.Org (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Somebody .  .  .  Eureka!
Message-ID: <675397058.16@sunbrk.FidoNet>
Date: 25 May 91 01:47:50 GMT
Sender: Usenet@sunbrk.FidoNet.Org
Lines: 29


In article <1991May18.051251.1438@stb.info.com> andyb@stb.info.com (Andy B.) writes:

>crawford@ENUXHA.EAS.ASU.EDU (Brian Crawford) writes:

>> 2) We do not always have someone present w/ super-user privs, and need to run
>>   'shutdown' from a few other accounts.  Could someone please recommend a way
>>    to shutdown the system down without superuser privilages? The 'shutdown'
>>    with this sytem (SCO XENIX 2.3.2) will only work from a super-user privs-
>>    even when the file ownership is changed at the command line.
 
>I've never done it but, how about putting a wrapper around the 
>shutdown command?  Then whomever you want to run shutdown, can own
>the wrapper, and the wrapper can give them the right priveledges
>for the duration of the command.

For starters LOOK at the shutdown command.  It's a script on the SCO Xenix
systems (don't know about SCO Unix).

There is a line that tests for login-in and if it's running at the console.

Clone the script, modify it, and run it that way.  A wrapper won't do it
from what I can see.

-- 
Bill Vermillion - UUCP: ...!tarpit!bilver!bill
                      : bill@bilver.UUCP

 * Origin: Seaeast - Fidonet<->Usenet Gateway - sunbrk (1:343/15.0)