Re: [Gumstix-users] how to give gumstix user permission to reboot?

[Dave H. <dhy...@gm...>]

Hi Alex,

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Alex4 <ale...@ic...> wrote:
>
> the conventional linux/unix approaches allowing a user to reboot don't seem
> to be working for me, and so part of this may be my learning how to do it on
> the gumstix linux distribution.  I even tried adding the user to the root
> group in /etc/group and that doesn't seem to work either.
>
> btw, this is why it seems I need to reboot for the new ip address
> $etc/init.d/networking restart
> Reconfiguring network interfaces... Auto negotiation NOT supported
>
> I tried creating a group called rebooter then adding my user to that in
> /etc/group and it didn't work either
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     rebooter       15 Jan  1  1970 reboot ->
> reboot.sysvinit

Adding your user to the group just allows access to the reboot file,
it won't make reboot run as root.

You could also get the user sticky bit:

chmod u+s reboot, and then reboot will run as root. Of course, using
sticky bits has security implications...

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Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
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