Gilles Detillieux wrote:
On 07/12/2009 12:40 PM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
Sean Cody wrote:
Sounds like a perfect opportunity to setup a VM to play with... then you don't have to wait until Friday to test.
Good idea. I can get on it in a couple hours instead of a few days. BTW, looks like the 'echo "reboot" | at now + 30 minutes' didn'twork out too well from the command line. I think at minimum it would need a sudo command.
If you're going to enable specific commands in /etc/sudoers, I'd recommend you enable access to the reboot command, rather than access to the at or crontab commands. The latter two would open up all sorts of possibilities for exploitation, whereas the former shouldn't make the machine more vulnerable to anything other than a premature reboot.
First I've confirmed the reboot/halt command needs to be performed as root under Mint. Makes sense.
When it comes to enabling access to the reboot/halt command, this would be done through file permissions?
Later Mike