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From: fsfacca@AVELON.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  PI Problems
Message-ID: <9002221632.AA10920@avelon.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 22 Feb 90 16:32:58 GMT
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"John R. Anderson" (VLD/ASB) <jra@BRL.MIL> writes:
> 
> 	I have recently encountered two problems with our P.I.'s:
> 
>       [ very strange rcp question deleted ]
> 
> 	2.  We would like users without "root" priviledges to be able to
> do "shutdown".  I assigned different passwords to the "root" and "sysadm"
> accounts.  When executing "System Shutdown" from the "System" menu, it
> requests the "System Administrator" password.  I took that to mean the
> "sysadm" account, but in fact it will only accept the "root" password.
> Is there a way to enable users without the "root" password to perform
> a shutdown???
> 

How about a line like:

   shutdown::0:0:shutdown the system:/:/etc/shutdown

in your /etc/passwd file.  you can password protect the shutdown id so that 
only selected users can do this.  actually, reboot would probably be a better
program to use if security is an issue as its not interactive.


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