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Slick

OMG don't touch the chair

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11 Jul 2003, 5:57am

How do I edit user permissions from the command line. For example I want to give a user permission to shutdown the machine.

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Enverex

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11 Jul 2003, 6:37pm

I think the user needs to be a member of the group "sys" in the /etc/group file, try that and a few other of the important sounding groups, I would try it for you but I havnt had time to install nix on my Desktop yet, my laptop is Dead and I dont really want to turn off my Server

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Slick

OMG don't touch the chair

384 Posts

11 Jul 2003, 7:17pm

I don't want to make this user a super user, just enough permission to turn off the machine without all the other commands.

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Enverex

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11 Jul 2003, 8:08pm

You need to install a program called `sudo` and then give the user access to `/sbin/shutdown`.

And easier way is if you have a `/etc/shutdown.allow` file, is put the persons username in there.

NS

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