shutdown by regular user

[Petter Adsen]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 07:03:53 -0400
william drescher <william at TechServSys.com> wrote:

> How can a non-privileged user initiate a shutdown.
> 
> There is one person with an administrative account and sudo 
> privleges.  There are 3 others with no account.  Frequently, in 
> case of emergency shutdown the admin user is not available.
> 
> I would like to set up a regular user but make it possible for 
> that user to run shutdown. In Unix I would use asroot, but Ubuntu 
> 14.4 LTS does not have that.
> 
> How can I do this.
> 
> -bill
> 
> 

You can set up sudo to run specific commands as root or other users.
See "man sudoers".

Petter

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