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Re: Linux shutdown

From: "Peter Koinange" <pkoinange () swiftkenya com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:55:42 +0300

Try Sudo you can give a user(s) access to some commands that have to ran as
root

Peter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pablo Gietz" <pablo.gietz () nuevobersa com ar>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 10:32 PM
Subject: Linux shutdown

Hi peolple
Do you know how to do a Linux (clear) shutdown without root privileges
from login screen?
I want to give a user the privilege of shutdown the server without being
root.  I have heared about umount problems of the file system.

Thanks

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