[LI] Re: HALT by a user

[Chetan Gopal Kashinath <chetugk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vimal Mathew <vml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 12:24 PM
> Subject: [LI] Re : HALT by a user
>
> | Hi,
> |  Ganesh asked how a normal user could halt the system.
> |  Well, if you are using the computer from the console (no telnet,rsh
> | etc.), you could just type Ctrl-Alt-Del like in DOS and the system

continuing the thread..... as root run userconf and open up the user to whom u
want to give shut down permissions. u just have to select one of the radio
buttons there to let that particular user shutdown, and regarding the security
feature, when the user asks for a shutdown the person should enter his passwd
for the system to shutdown... u can also make any user superuser equivalent,
but he wont be able to enter the /root directory nor will be able to make conf
changes..... i dont know exactly what permissions he is given ( can anybody
help me out here )
this is much easier instead of messing around with the conf files , etc

bye
chetu
--
 If it was'nt for C we'd have to program in
 BASI, PASAL and OBOL ......



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