`shutdown` checks a file /etc/shutdown.allow (which is just a list of
usernames) for users allowed to run it. Everyone that you want to have
permissions to shut down the machine should have their username listed in
/etc/shutdown.allow.
-Matt
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Ikhlasul Amal wrote:
> I met on /etc/passwd that there exist shutdown and halt username. When I
> tried to use their feature (shutdown and halt as shell), I got an error
> message telling that I had no permission for using shutdown. How can I
> set shutdown so certain users/groups are allowed executing it without
> having to have root previledge? (I ever met that option on one
> configuration dialog -- but, ooppss, forget what it was!)
>
> --
> @mal
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