[mythtv-users] Powering off computer as non-root

Jonathan Tidmore jtidmore at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 14:54:20 EST 2005


Are you using kde?  Which Display Manager are you using?  GDM, KDM, XDM?

chmod +s /sbin/halt is not a good idea.

On 12/27/05, R. Geoffrey Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:58:15 +0000, Piers Kittel wrote:
>
> >Hello all,
> >
> >Mythfrontend is set to turn off my computer using the command "halt".
> >Mythfrontend is run as an non-root user - in this case user "piers" - so
> >when I try to exit MythTV, and I select "Yes, exit and shutdown" - it
> >jsut says "Command not found".  Obviously this command isn't available
> >to non-root users.  So how do I enable the user "piers" to be able to
> >shut down the computer without opening up too many obvious security
> holes?
>
> put a copy of the program in /home/piers or /home/mythtv as applicable and
> chmod it so that user 'piers'  or 'mythtv' can execute it.
>
> If user mythtv "owns" mythfrontend, then only mythtv and root will be able
> to execute the shutdown.
>
> Geoff
>
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