Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (720 mails)

[jae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jaeha Lee)]

Thank you very much really !!!

Cheers
jae

On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Juergen Braukmann wrote:

> 
> Jaeha Lee wrote:
> > 
> > hi,
> > 
> > I read man page about "sudoers", but too many things I don't understand.
> > please can you give me simple example, I'm not on the network, it's truly
> > stand-alone home PC.
> > 
> 
> OK, here we go. I give you my /etc/sudoers:
> 
> --------------------------8<----------------------------------------
> # sudoers file.
> #
> # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
> #
> # See the man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
> #
> 
> # Host alias specification
> Host_Alias      LOCAL=slartibartfast
> # User alias specification
> User_Alias      SYSTEM=braukman,dk4jb
> # Cmnd alias specification
> Cmnd_Alias      DOWN=/sbin/halt
> # User privilege specification
> root            ALL=(ALL) ALL
> SYSTEM          LOCAL=DOWN
> # brauki is allowed to shutdown slartibartfast without giving his
> password:
> brauki          slartibartfast=NOPASSWD:DOWN
> # and so might his alter ego braukman ;-)
> braukman        slartibartfast=/sbin/halt NOPASSWD:ALL
> #
> --------------------------8<----------------------------------------
> 
> 
> to shout down my system I issue a 'sudo /sbin/halt'. I am not asked to
> give my password, since I turned that off. that should do the trick. you
> must install the sudo-package first.
> 
> an other tip to shut down a system is the following:
> create a user say... down
> 
> modify /etc/passwd:
> 
> [...]
> nobody:x:-2:-2:nobody:/tmp:/bin/bash
> brauki:x:500:100:Juergen Braukmann:/home/brauki:/bin/bash
> down:x:0:100:shutdownuseer:/tmp:/sbin/halt
> [...]
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
> switch to another console log in as down and enjoy. ;-)
> 
> (I have not tried that one, but I remember someone sugesting that...)
> 
> Jürgen
> 
> 
> ps: I have just tried that, it works if you give "down"
>     the uid 0 (root)
> 
>     it's a good idea, to have a password on that account, too ;-)
> 
>     in my opinion it comes next to ctrl-alt-del, the proper way is
>     sudo. nice to be root and able to change messages already in
>     /etc/mqueue ... ;-))
> 
> wq
> ^^ oupps.. wrong editor ;-)
> 
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