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On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:36:01 +0100 |
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Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi Gentoo-users, |
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> I'm facing this problem: I *have to* allow one non-root user |
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> to shutdown my server remotely (ssh). I know I could create |
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> account for him and add his login into /etc/shutdown.allow but |
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> I do not want to grant him full shell access. |
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> I thought about adding "/sbin/shutdown -a h now" as his shell |
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> into /etc/passwd so that right after he authenticates himself, |
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> shutdown is called. But I'm not sure something like this is |
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> possible (shutdown must be probably called from shel)... |
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> Or is there maybe some other way how to create very restricted |
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> account where user could not do anything else but call shutdown? |
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> Jarry |
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pdmenu |
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it's an ncurses menu-driven shell thingy, and you create one menu with |
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one command "shutdown" |
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The menu items calls a wrapper script that actually runs "shutdown && |
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logout" so that his session isn't left hanging in mid air. We use |
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pdmenu extensively for the not-so-clever first line support folk and it |
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works well. From Windows they use PuTTY and all they see is a menu. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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