[vdr] Re: Shutdown when running vdr as non-root user...

[Laurence Abbott <laz@club-burniston.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:57, Andreas Breitenbach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Laurence Abbott wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone come up with a good way of using a shutdown script when
> > running vdr as a non-root user?
> 
> Try sudo with NOPASSWD option
> 
> /etc/sudoers
> 
> vdr localhost = NOPASSWD : /sbin/shutdown
> 
> in shutdown.sh
> 
> use:
> 
> sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now
> 
> 
> or
> 
> - create a new group for shutdown users (sdusers)
> - add vdr user to shutdown users
> - change owner of script: chown root.sdusers shutdown.sh
> - set sticky bit to shutdown script: chmod 4750 shutdown.sh

Ahhhh....I've used sudo for years but didn't know about the NOPASSWD
option!

Sorted.

Cheers,

Laz