I have this same problem...I even created a file /etc/shutdown.allow and
put root in it (the man page for shutdown says its just a one entry per
line format) and that didn't help either.
Richard Parrott wrote:
>
> Help......
>
> I can not shutdown from Mandrake 7b. even though I am root
> (/sbin/shutdown).
>
> -under console, it says that there is "no authentic user logged in", but
> I have full control of
> all other root operations.
>
> What can I do?
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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