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rebooting locally
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Sit)
Mon Aug 12 15:06:01 1996
From: Eric Sit <esit@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 15:01:39 EDT
Hi ther,e
Okay, well, simply adding users to the /etc/group file does not give permissions.
The properties for the /sbin/shutdown file is as follows:
-r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 126976 Dec 18 1995 shutdown
Is there a security risk if I were to change it so that one on the wheel group
could reboot the machine? Okay to change it to:?
-r-sr-x--- 1 root wheel . ........... shutdown
Thanks!
Eric
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To: Eric Sit <esit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: rebooting netBSD locally
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:37:46 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:44:47 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
I think the easiest thing to do is get together a list of the local
users of your system, and add their usernames to group "wheel" in
/etc/group and /etc/group.local. Then I think they should be able to
reboot by logging in and typing "shutdown -r now".
Alternatively, you could rebuild your kernel with the
PCVT_CTRL_ALT_DEL option, but that's a little harder. Also, the PCVT
handling of ctrl-alt-del is not as clean as Linux's (it doesn't do a
normal shutdown).
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