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Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

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[SOLVED] Allowing users to halt computer with sudo without password

Hi Archers.

First of all, I'd like to say that I've read the Wiki page about that but this is not exactly what I want.

What I want is to allow all users to halt, and reboot my computer while they are using sudo, without asking them a password BUT only with these commands (halt and reboot). The prompt have to ask for a password for all the rest (using pacman...)

I would like to do this in a clean, and comprehensible way.

Thanks

Last edited by Lowra (2011-03-12 21:34:32)

Inxsible

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Re: [SOLVED] Allowing users to halt computer with sudo without password

look into visudo and allowing NOPASSWD option to reboot and poweroff commands. Its the first option listed in the link that you gave. Why do you not want to use that?

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Lowra

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Re: [SOLVED] Allowing users to halt computer with sudo without password

The example provided in visudo will allow a user, or a group of user to execute all the commands without asking for a password. This is not what I want.

The example in the wiki does roughly what I want, but applies to only one user and one hostname.
I would like to make it applies to all the users of my system, and without defining any hostname in my /etc/sudoers. I'm writting a little guide for a couple of people, and I wouldn't like to add in it anything which depends on a custom hostname...

loafer

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Re: [SOLVED] Allowing users to halt computer with sudo without password

I am sure you can do this with sudo but you can definately do it with super (in the AUR).

Last edited by loafer (2011-03-12 20:50:12)

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Mr.Elendig

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Re: [SOLVED] Allowing users to halt computer with sudo without password

The example provided in visudo will allow a user, or a group of user to execute all the commands without asking for a password. This is not what I want.

The example in the wiki does roughly what I want, but applies to only one user and one hostname.
I would like to make it applies to all the users of my system, and without defining any hostname in my /etc/sudoers. I'm writting a little guide for a couple of people, and I wouldn't like to add in it anything which depends on a custom hostname...

%somegroup ALL=ALL NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt,/sbin/reboot

Or you could use consolekit.

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skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Allowing users to halt computer with sudo without password

Did you try this yet?

%users ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown -h now,/sbin/reboot

Lowra

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Re: [SOLVED] Allowing users to halt computer with sudo without password

Thanks Mr.Elendig, and skunktrader.

I made a mix of your anwsers, tested it, and it works well

%users ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt,/sbin/reboot

SOLVED !