[PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Feb 27 22:19:48 UTC 2019


On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> The sudoers(5) man page states,
> Also, the host name “localhost” will only match if that is the actual host 
> name, which is usually only the case for non-networked systems.

Paul,

Ah, I forgot to look at that man page.

> You'll want to replace "localhost" with either "ALL" or the exact hostname of 
> the machine in question, e.g.,
> %users ALL=/sbin/shutdown -h now

As this will be on only one machine ALL will do.

Can I set an alias so when she exits X11 to a console all she needs to type
is
sudo halt
and this will invoke /sbin/shutdown -h now? Gotta' keep in simple here.

Thanks,

Rich



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