On Mar 18, 2000 at 20:38, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>I have to be root to run shutdown and halt. If I run it as any other
>user, it asks for a password.
Because you're on the console. The *physical* console.
> I assume this is the root password, and
No, it's the password of $USER
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