Re: User account with permissions to reboot



At 30 May 2007 05:43:29 -0700 srpjunk1877 <srpjunk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hello

Can anyone explain how to create a new user with permissions to only
reboot the OS, the OS I'm using is VMWare ESX 3.01 which is based on
RedHat.

Thanks in advance

Add this line to /etc/sudoers (replace 'someuser' with the user in
question):

someuser localhost=/sbin/reboot


Simon



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