how to give a normal user reboot and shutdown permission? Plz also mention the

how to give a normal user reboot and shutdown permission?
Plz also mention the step.

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how to give a normal user reboot and shutdown permission? Plz also mention the step...

Answer / dave_chamoli82

how to give permission to a user using "VISUDO"
# useradd add
# visudo
# User_Alias ADMINS = jsmith, mikem
User_Alias ADD = test

## Command Aliases
## These are groups of related commands...
Cmnd_Alias ADDCMD = /usr/sbin/useradd, /usr/bin/passwd,
/usr/bin/reboot [TYPE THIS LINE]

## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
add ALL = ADDCMD [TYPE THIS LINE]
:wq [SAVE & EXIT]

# su - add
$ sudo /usr/sbin/useradd u2
$ /usr/bin/reboot [now your system reboot]

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how to give a normal user reboot and shutdown permission? Plz also mention the step...

Answer / bharath

By using sudo cmd we can give a permission for a normal user
to execute reboot and shutdown.

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how to give a normal user reboot and shutdown permission? Plz also mention the step...

Answer / kumaresanchandran

shutdown: shutdown -h
go to root directory type: init 0

reboot : reboot
go to root directory type: init 6

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how to give a normal user reboot and shutdown permission? Plz also mention the step...

Answer / k.arveen

to reboot
#init 6
to shutdown
#init 0

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