Re: [rox-users] Some thoughts and problems

[Lars H. <la...@un...>]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:57:37 +0000
Terry Blunt <te...@la...> wrote:

> I still haven't made any progress getting a proper shutdown behavior, and
> unfortunately have limited time to investigate how to make halt & reboot
> suid - to say nothing of the fact that now I have a pretty good working
> system I'm reluctant to risk messing it all up!

Using suid is generally not a good idea. I'm pretty sure your flavour of *nix has
a sudo package of some sort. Install it and give yourself, or your group, access
to running halt and reboot without a password.

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Lars Hansson