shutdown by regular user

[Niles Rogoff]

The shutdown group with the sudoers file is the correct way to do it.

2015-03-26 17:19 GMT-04:00 Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>:

> On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 07:03 -0400, william drescher wrote:
> > How can a non-privileged user initiate a shutdown.
>
> Only do this if you trust your users to shutdown only when necessary.
>
> There are lots of ways!
>
> - have a cronjob that checks every minute for a specific file in /tmp
> and shuts down if the file exists
>
> - have a setuid script that shuts the system down
>
> - have a "shutdown" group, put your users into it, add a sudoers rule to
> let that group shut the system down
>
> - put the system on a UPS, run a UPS client that will shut the system
> down if the power fails, and tell your users to turn off the power to
> the UPS in an emergency.
>
> - and probably a few other ways as well.
>
> Regards, K.
>
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