[PLUG] Usermod: adding a user to a group

Sandy Herring sandy at herring.org
Thu Aug 8 04:06:38 UTC 2002


Good point, Tony. You'd have to add the user to /etc/shutdown.allow and do a
`shutdown -ar now'.

Sandy

On Wed, 07 Aug 2002, Anthony Schlemmer wrote: 
> But if the person in question can't remember their root password they 
> won't be able to run "shutdown" since they can't su to root. I guess if 
> the system in question handles <CTRL>-<ALT>-<DEL> a clean shutdown and 
> reboot can be accomplished that way.
> 
> Tony

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