On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:42:08PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > I have never looked into this before, but is there a way that I (just a > joeblow user) can shutdown my system without having to become root first? > > I looked at man for shutdown, there isthe -a option. I added my user to > the /etc/shutdown.allow file, but that doesn't work. > > I guess I could chown /sbin/shutdown, but that doesn't seem like the best > way to do this.
If you're running X, one easy way is to use kdm (or perhaps gdm), which gives a button for shutdown (and has to be suid root anyways to allow you to log in as any user). -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
