On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, JF wrote:

> I need to set this up for a user who will not have root access. There would
> be times I would need her to turn off the machine. As far as I've gathered,
> only root can perform a complete shutdown. In runlevel 3 anyone (at least
> the way I'm configured) can shut down with ctrl+alt+del but I can't find a
> way to do this except as root in runlevel 5.

Doesn't sudo work with runlevel 5?... If it does, that's it, you can
configure /etc/sudoers and give your friend the right to run shutdown.
If not, well... I don't know. ;)

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