How about using sudo. Write a simple shell script to call sudo shutdown then grant the sleep user access to this command with the NOPASSWD option in the sudoers file. Stuart Weaver Unix Administrator Element K 'the knowledge catalyst' www.elementk.com "Stuart Halliday" <StuartH@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 09/27/2004 06:02 AM Please respond to General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx cc Subject How do I make a User login shutdown my box? I've got RedHat 8 on a Athlon box and I'd like a user logon to perform a shutdown of the box. I was advised to do the following: I've added a user called 'Sleep' and added this user to the root group via the User Manager program and made its login shell /sbin/shutdown in the /etc/passwd. I've added in the users directory 2 lines in the .bashrc of: PATH=$PATH:/sbin export PATH as I understand it this path isn't usually in a users path. I added the user sleep to the /etc/shutdown.allow file as well. But when I logon via the logon screen as user 'sleep', the picture goes black and then comes back again! I tried pressing ctrl-alt-del at the logon screen but a wee box pops up asking for the root password to halt or reboot. Any idea what else I need to do? If any kind and knowledgeable person could guide me, I would welcome that. :-) -- Stuart Halliday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ForwardSourceID:NT00016846 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
