Re: how to assign full access rights to guest

[John K Luebs <jkluebs luebsphoto com>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:38:24PM +0530, harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote:
> hi
> I am using Linux fedora core 3.
> I want to shutdown the system from  .bash_profile  file using
> cd /sbin
> ./shutdown -g o
> but when I run the file otherthan a superuser it is giving error message as
>              " to run "shutdown" u must be a root"
>  but i want to execute shutdown command  as  a non root user (Ex: guest)

This type of stuff is ideally accomplished with sudo. sudo has a unique
configuration syntax, but it is well worth learning how to use it.

> Even i have used  command for changing the ownership as
>
> chown "guest" /root -R      Still it is giving error.

Don't do this, ever. There is never, ever a good reason to change the
ownership of /root. Besides it won't accomplish what you want because
that is not how UNIX permissions work. You should look info on UNIX
permissions.

  -jkl