| friedgold  
 
 
 
 
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|  | Posted: June 09 2005,14:58 |  |  Just to expand on my earlier answer the default sudoers' file looks like this
 
 
 | Code Sample |  | # sudoers file. 
 
 
 
 root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
 
 knoppix ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
 dsl ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
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 This means dsl can run anything using sudo with no password. You could change it to something like this:
 
 
 | Code Sample |  | # sudoers file. 
 Cmnd_Alias      SHUTDOWN = /usr/sbin/shutdown
 Cmnd_Alias      HALT = /usr/sbin/halt
 Cmnd_Alias      REBOOT = /usr/sbin/reboot
 
 root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
 dsl ALL=NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN,HALT,REBOOT
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 This allows dsl to use sudo to shutdown/reboot without a password but restricts any other commands.
 
 If you want to know more about the sudoers file try the sudoers' manual
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