Re: Adding more tools to be used by operator group members

From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:59:33 +0400
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:03:12PM +0100, Olivier Cochard-Labb? wrote:
O> There are only 2 useable tools by "operator" group members:
O> shutdown (and its child: poweroff, halt, etc?) and mksnap_ffs.
O> 
O> On my HAL-less laptop, I've put my user in the operator group that let
O> me reboot/power-off it with shutdown.
O> But I would to be able to suspend-resume it too (with zzz).
O> 
O> Here is what I've did:
O> for f in "/usr/sbin/acpiconf /usr/sbin/apm"; do
O>     chown :operator $f
O>     chmod 4550 $f
O> done
O> 
O> What about configuring this permission by default on FreeBSD ?
O> And why /sbin/reboot isn't useable by operator too ?
O> Are there somes security issue ?

+1 here. I was always annoyed and surprised by this fact.

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Totus tuus, Glebius.
Received on Tue Jan 22 2013 - 16:59:43 UTC

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