Adding more tools to be used by operator group members

[Adrian Chadd]

Ah, the historical difference between shutdown -r and reboot....


adrian

On 22 January 2013 09:59, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:03:12PM +0100, Olivier Cochard-Labb? wrote:
> O> There are only 2 useable tools by "operator" group members:
> O> shutdown (and its child: poweroff, halt, etc?) and mksnap_ffs.
> O>
> O> On my HAL-less laptop, I've put my user in the operator group that let
> O> me reboot/power-off it with shutdown.
> O> But I would to be able to suspend-resume it too (with zzz).
> O>
> O> Here is what I've did:
> O> for f in "/usr/sbin/acpiconf /usr/sbin/apm"; do
> O>     chown :operator $f
> O>     chmod 4550 $f
> O> done
> O>
> O> What about configuring this permission by default on FreeBSD ?
> O> And why /sbin/reboot isn't useable by operator too ?
> O> Are there somes security issue ?
>
> +1 here. I was always annoyed and surprised by this fact.
>
> --
> Totus tuus, Glebius.
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