[PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

[Smith, Cathy]

I forgot to mention that the script does whatever you want it to do.  This could as easily be the actual shutdown command.  It doesn't have to be a wrapper for anything.   Our script is a menu of options.  I'd recommend (from experience) including a prompt that asks is this really what you want to do before it shuts anything down.  



Cathy
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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at pdxlinux.org <plug-bounces at pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 3:27 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug at pdxlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Allow user to shutdown host

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Smith, Cathy wrote:

> You can just set up an alias in .bashrc or whatever file is used for aliases.  That's what I do for folks here.  I have a group set up for people needing to use a command.  I edit the sudoers file once to set things up.  It looks like
> 	  %hradmin  ALL=/usr/local/bin/hradmin.sh
>
> I make the hradmin group a secondary group for the user.  For example, for the user account greg
> 	usermod -a -G hradmin  greg
>
> Then Gregg has in his .bashrc
> 	alias hradmin='sudo /usr/local/bin/hradmin.sh'

Cathy,

Thanks very much. I always learn so much from you professional system/network admins.

> Names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Heh!

Best regards,

Rich
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