Great, that sounds just like what I am looking for.

Willy B^)

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 07:16:55PM -0700, David S. wrote:
> > 
> > > 	This is probably a really dumb question but is it possible to give
> > > a general user the ability to use the shutdown command and if so how?
> > 
> > So basically, all you need to do is add the user to that operator group in
> > /etc/group. (But this will end up giving that user other privileges too.)
> 
> Or, you could use 'sudo' from packages to give the user permission to
> run just 'shutdown', and not the others that go along with 'operator'
> group membership.
> 
> David S.
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