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hi,

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:51:25PM +0100, wleeson@indigo.ie wrote:
> This is probably a really dumb question but is it possible to give a
> general user the ability to use the shutdown command and if so how?

yes, since /sbin/shutdown is bu default suid-root and operator group
with no-exec for other.  simply add the desired user to group operator.


regards,

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