[mythtv-users] Can I SU to root w/o typing a password?
Mark Musone
mmusone at shatterit.com
Fri Jul 18 14:03:46 EDT 2003
You can always try to just setuid /sbin/halt
-Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Chris Petersen
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:57 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Can I SU to root w/o typing a password?
> I'm running mythfrontend on my X-Box and when the frontend exits it
runs
> "halt" to shut off the x-box. However, halt must be run as root and
my
> x-box logs in as a different user by default.
what's with that? I can run both "halt" and "poweroff" from any user
logged into the console. Maybe it's just a redhat thing, though.
-Chris
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