> From: USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Tats, > > Superuser privileges are needed for utils in /sbin > inclusive of halt, poweroff, shutdown etc. You cannot > run these as an user. This 755 does not give an user > rights to run /sbin utils. >
well, then how's a normal user supposed to shut an workstation down? both 'poweroff' and 'shutdown' are in /sbin. they can't very well expect the admin to come and do it for them. i think i was able to do it in previous versions of mandrake. this problem has started with 8.2 (otherwise an excellent distro imho). i couldn't wait for a better solution (because my brother uses the system when i am away and needs to be able to shut it off in case of a powercut), so what i have done is <snip> [root@localhost] chmod 4755 /sbin/halt </snip> perhaps it was unwise - i don't know. if you have a better way, tell me about it. > Secondly, AFAIK, for poweroff to perate you also > need apm support compiled/ loaded with your kernel. that's okay. i have it. it's the stock kernel that came with mdk 8.2 (2.4.18-6mdk), and they usually compile all the common options in by default. - t. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
