sudo and console user

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Jan 21 19:19:30 UTC 2005


On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 06:48:21PM +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Can not do. At least not in this case.
> eject HAS to be done by root (I even tried with 777 permission on the  
> actual device node to see if there was any hope of doing it through / 
> etc/security/console.perms) - and needs to be done without any kind of  
> password - it's called by gtkpod when gtkpod exits.
> I certainly don't want to run gtkpod as root via console helper.
> Unless I'm not understanding console helper?

Consolehelper can do this. Look at the 'reboot' command.

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