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Elsipkitch9809
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 Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2002 7:26 pm Post subject: Fixing sudoer file |
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Hiya,
I'm trying to learn how to set a certain user to be able to access /sbin/shutdown and /sbin/reboot so I can make some gnome icons that let you reboot or shutdown.
I looked up posts in the search engine on this, got a few interesting ones, but none that so far have fully helped me (except for setting the sudo bit +s). I've checked the man pages for sudo and sudoer.
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klieber
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| Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2002 11:42 pm Post subject: Re: Fixing sudoer file |
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| alaterale wrote: | | That doesn't give visudo any errors, but I still get program not found if I try typing reboot as jstrange. Any help or suggestions? |
That's because /sbin isn't in your $PATH. Try either placing that directory in your path or typing /sbin/shutdown instead of just shutdown. (I suppose you could also symlink /usr/bin/shutdown to /sbin/shutdown)
--kurt
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Elsipkitch9809
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| Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2002 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
I tried what you suggested and now I get "must be superuser". I haven't changed /etc/sudoer (or whatever visudo edits) at all.... I don't get it  I must be doing something wrong here. |
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klieber
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| Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 12:17 am Post subject: |
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Ahh....are you typing:
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You should be doing the latter.
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