how to assign full access rights to guest

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Thu Jun 23 13:55:20 UTC 2005


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)
>Even i have used  command for changing the ownership as
>chown "guest" /root -R      Still it is giving error.
>
>Is there any other way to shutdown other than .bash_profile  from  user "guest".
>How can i give full permissions  to my user "guest"  as equal as
>"root" ,so that i can run "shutdown" command.
>
>  
>
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regards
Rahul




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