Hardware Audit

> -----Original Message-----
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> bouncesredhat.com] On Behalf Of McDougall, Marshall (FSH)
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 6:30 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: Hardware Audit
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> Why would you want non privileged users to be able to
shut down the
> machine?  Just curious.
> 
> Regards, Marshall
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bouncesredhat.com] On Behalf Of
Yogi pn
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 12:00 AM
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> Subject: Re: Hardware Audit
> 
> Hi ,
>       We are using AIX 5.2, on this non previlaged
users are not able
to
> shutdown the machine, what permissions are to be
changed for the non
> previlaged users to shutdown the machine. Thanks for
your help in
> advance.


If you really must have this functionality the best way to
do it is
probably via sudo.
Adding the following to /etc/sudoers should work.

%group	ALL=/sbin/shutdown

For the user to utilize the shutdown command they would
type:

sudo /sbin/shutdown <options>


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