Allow standard users to RPC reboot server

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Purpose

I have a server that I like to pretend does not exist (like I do with most of my Windows servers). This system is dedicated to one department, so it makes sense to allow them the ability to reboot the server.

Permissions

Going into this I assume standard users can not use RPC shutdown. So in this case we need to allow them to reboot without being able to break anything.
[1]

  • Open secpol.msc
  • Navigate to Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment -> Force shutdown from a remote system
  • Add the user or group you want to allow remote shutdown rights to.

Script

Obviously we can not simply tell people what to type into a terminal. Also they would not know if the system was back online or not anyway.

  1. ↑ https://superuser.com/questions/332548/how-can-i-allow-non-administrators-to-use-shutdown-exe
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