how can a user shutdown system

hi i wanted to know how can a normal user shutdown in solaris 9. can somebody help me in this case.Regards

[127 byte] By [] at [2007-11-25 22:51:02]

# 1

Generally, that's a bad practice, because it can potentially bypass system security.

Be that as it may...

I tripped over this entry in SunBlogs, from 19-OCT-05

<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bnitz/20051019" target="_blank">http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bnitz/20051019</a>

It describes one approach to this topic.

It is for OpenSolaris but may be applicable to the non-open-source variety.

Give it a try.

at 2007-7-5 17:06:29 >

# 2

You can look into RBAC or SUDO for your system.

at 2007-7-5 17:06:29 >

# 3

To do this with Solaris 9 and RBAC using one of the default profiles:

usermod -P "Maintenance and Repair" <username>

Then when the user <username> wants to shutdown the system they type:

pfexec /usr/sbin/halt

There's a few other things they can execute with this profile such as "eeprom" "vmstat" "crash" so you may want to look at making your own profile.

have a look here for more info http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0365/6mg5vpmbd#hic

discostu at 2007-7-5 17:06:29 >

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