Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!marvin!jsp From: jsp@marvin.UUCP (Johnnie Peters) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: halt not by root Keywords: halt ! not root Message-ID: <8@marvin.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 00:38:57 GMT References: <1128@usfvax2.EDU> Lines: 13 In article <1128@usfvax2.EDU>, ssi@usfvax2.EDU (Ssi) writes: > I run a Sun file server with clients. My question is > how can I give halt(8) permission to users other than > root. We shut the system down at night and root is > at home. > Make a group called halt and change the group of halt to halt. Then add everybodys name to /etc/group that has permission to run the halt program. This may cause some problems with halt because of the group change. I can not see any off hand that it would but you can never tell with out trying. -- Johnnie --