the "dangerous" answer to your question is to do the following: "chmod
+s /sbin/halt" Note that shutdown and reboot are symlinks to halt. Have
fun...
Jon
Doug Stewart wrote:
harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote:
hi
I am using Linux fedora core 3.
I want to shutdown the system from .bash_profile file
using
cd /sbin
./shutdown -g o
but when I run the file otherthan a superuser it is giving error
message as
" to run "shutdown" u must be a root"
but i want to execute shutdown command as a non root user (Ex: guest)
Even i have used command for changing the ownership as
chown "guest" /root -R Still it is giving error.
This will not accomplish what you're looking to do and is a Patently
Bad Idea(tm).
Is there any other way to shutdown other than .bash_profile from
user "guest".
How can i give full permissions to my user "guest" as equal as
"root" ,so that i can run "shutdown" command.
Run `man sudo` from any command line and read up on this incredibly
powerful and useful tool.
