how to assign full access rights to guest

[Jonathan Hartje]

the "dangerous" answer to your question is to do the following: "chmod 
+s /sbin/halt" Note that shutdown and reboot are symlinks to halt. Have 
fun...

Jon

Doug Stewart wrote:

> 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.
>
>