how to assign full access rights to guest
Doug Stewart
dstewart at atl.lmco.com
Thu Jun 23 14:01:03 UTC 2005
harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote:
> hi
> I am using Linux fedora core 3.
> I want to shutdown the system from .bash_profile file
> using
> cd /sbin
> ./shutdown -g o
> but when I run the file otherthan a superuser it is giving error message as
> " to run "shutdown" u must be a root"
> but i want to execute shutdown command as a non root user (Ex: guest)
> Even i have used command for changing the ownership as
> chown "guest" /root -R Still it is giving error.
>
This will not accomplish what you're looking to do and is a Patently Bad
Idea(tm).
> Is there any other way to shutdown other than .bash_profile from user "guest".
> How can i give full permissions to my user "guest" as equal as
> "root" ,so that i can run "shutdown" command.
>
Run `man sudo` from any command line and read up on this incredibly
powerful and useful tool.
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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs
dstewart at atl.lmco.com
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