[mythtv-users] Shutdown / Restart Frontend

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Hika,

Saturday, December 13, 2014, 10:09:53 AM, you wrote:

> Hoi Michael,

> Saturday, December 13, 2014, 4:03:22 AM, you wrote:

>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com>wrote:
>> On 12/12/2014 08:04 PM, Michael Stucky wrote:
>>  ...
 >>> Make sure that the user that runs the mythfrontend has permission to
>>  
>>  execute reboot/shutdown. You will probably need to add a line like this to
>>  /etc/suders:
>>  
>>    mythtv ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot, /sbin/halt, /sbin/shutdown
>>  
>>  This assumes that "mythtv" is the user that runs mythfrontend. And the
>>  proper way to edit /etc/suders is:
>>  
>>  sudo visudo
>>  
>>  
>>  If the line: #includedir /etc/sudoers.d appears in /etc/sudoers, then,
>>  as I just posted, put the changes in /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv (which may
>>  already be there.) Both ways work, sudoers.d is preferred.
>>  
>>  -- 
>>  Bill

>> I have updated my frontend's sudoers config by moving the
>> reboot/halt/shutdown line to /etc/sudoers.d/mythtv and have verified
>> that the frontend shuts down as before.

>> Thanks for showing us a better way to do this.

>> Mike

> sudo shouldn't be needed. It seems the rights to the halt command are
> set wrongly on the distribution, they should be 755. reboot and
> poweroff should be simlinks to this /sbin/halt command.

> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

Oh, and the same goes for /sbin/shutdown

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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