Re: [gentoo-user] How to set-up "shutdown-only" user?

[Randy Barlow]

Jarry wrote:
> I'm facing this problem: I *have to* allow one non-root user
> to shutdown my server remotely (ssh). I know I could create
> account for him and add his login into /etc/shutdown.allow but
> I do not want to grant him full shell access.
>
> I thought about adding "/sbin/shutdown -a h now" as his shell
> into /etc/passwd so that right after he authenticates himself,
> shutdown is called. But I'm not sure something like this is
> possible (shutdown must be probably called from shel)...
>
> Or is there maybe some other way how to create very restricted
> account where user could not do anything else but call shutdown?

Could you create a simple webapp that requires authentication and has a 
big Shutdown button? Something like that would be fairly easy to make 
with Django, or something simpler like Pylons.

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R