I got lots and lots of responses, as expected. The answers fell into
two categories that were about evenly divided. One camp recommended
using "sudo" or custom written C programs. The other camp recommended
setting up an account with root equivalence and make that user's shell a
script containing the appropriate shutdown command (shutdown, init,
poweroff, etc). I choose the second option.
Thanks to everyone who shared their knowledge.
-- H.A.N.D. ;-) Thomas A. Plesha NSLC Pacific Voice (510)246-5949 P.O. Box 1307 FAX (510) 246-5944 Benicia, CA 95410 DSN 350-5949"Every morning is the dawn of a new error."
>---------- >From: Billy.Lewis@ssa.gov[SMTP:Billy.Lewis@ssa.gov] >Sent: Thursday, November 14, 1996 5:51 AM >To: Plesha, Thomas A. (NSLC Pacific) >Subject: Re: Non-root Shutdown > > Thomas, > > We are wrestling with the same delima here. Will you please >summarize > (or send me) your results. > > Thanks, > > Billy > > >______________________________ Reply Separator >_________________________________ >Subject: Non-root Shutdown >Author: "Plesha, Thomas A. (NSLC Pacific)" <TPlesha@seacosd.navy.mil> >at >##INTERNET >Date: 11/13/96 8:05 PM > > >Is there a best (preferred) method of shutting down a system running >Solaris 2.5 without logging in as root? I am in a situation where >non-administrator personnel may be required to shutdown (init 0) a >system. I don't want to "give away" root's password to these people. > I will summarize. TIA. >-- >Thomas A. Plesha Physical: NSLC Pacific >Voice (510)246-5949 P.O. Box 1307 >FAX (510)246-5944 Benicia, CA 94510-4037 >DSN 350-5949 >http://www.seacosd.navy.mil > > "Every morning is the dawn of a new error." > >Received: from s3abac8 by ccsmtpgw.ssa.gov (SMTPLINK V2.11.01) > ; Wed, 13 Nov 96 20:05:32 EST >Return-Path: <sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov> >Received: from s3abab9 by s3abac8 with SMTP > (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA129793940; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 20:12:20 -0500 >Received: from Mailhub by s3abab9 > id AA36006; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 20:05:23 -0500 >Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by ra.mcs.anl.gov >(8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA05990; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:00:38 -0600 >(CST) >Received: by ra.mcs.anl.gov (bulk_mailer v1.5); Wed, 13 Nov 1996 >17:57:29 -0600 >Received: (from daemon@localhost) by ra.mcs.anl.gov (8.7.4/8.7.3) id >RAA05680 for sun-managers-outbound; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:11:24 -0600 >(CST) >Sender: sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov >Received: from nslcdp-nt003.seacosd.navy.mil >(nslcdp-nt003.seacosd.navy.mil [199.10.231.170]) by ra.mcs.anl.gov >(8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA05675 for <sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov>; >Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:11:17 -0600 (CST) >Received: by nslcdp-nt003.seacosd.navy.mil with Microsoft Exchange (IMC >4.0.837.3) > id <01BBD175.25D8BAC0@nslcdp-nt003.seacosd.navy.mil>; Wed, 13 Nov >1996 15:12:55 -0800 >Message-Id: ><c=US%a=_%p=NAVY%l=NSLCDP-NT003-961113231254Z-282@nslcdp-nt003.seacosd.n >avy.mil> >From: "Plesha, Thomas A. (NSLC Pacific)" <TPlesha@seacosd.navy.mil> >Reply-To: "Plesha, Thomas A. (NSLC Pacific)" <TPlesha@seacosd.navy.mil> >Followup-To: "Plesha, Thomas A. (NSLC Pacific)" ><TPlesha@seacosd.navy.mil> >To: "'sun-managers'" <sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov> >Subject: Non-root Shutdown >Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:12:54 -0800 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version >4.0.837.3 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Precedence: bulk > >
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