Hey Derek, >> I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a >> regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in >> /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown >> -r now but bash said only root can do that. Shutdown has r-x >> permission for all, so, I wonder, what setting/file do I need to >> change in order to be able to run shutdown as a regular user?
> Shutdown is under the control of PAM (Permissions access module?) > If you look at /usr/bin/shutdown you will see it is in fact a symlink to an > application called 'consolehelper' > Consolehelper is a wrapper which looks at the name of the symlink it was > called from (in this case shutdown) and looks it up in /etc/pam.d > If it finds a file in there with the same name as the symlink it applies the > authentication tests it finds there. If authentication passes consolehelper > will pass control over to the requested application. ( /sbin/shutdown) > /etc/pam.d/shutdown contains :- > #%PAM-1.0 > auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so > auth required /lib/security/pam_console.so > #auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth > account required /lib/security/pam_permit.so > In your case I think it is the last line which is stopping you running > shutdown. Probably because of your security level. If you ask for high > security, then that is what you get :) Thank you for the answer, but I set the lowest security level at install (I think it was "Medium"). So what do I neeed to do? Commment out the last line? -- TIA Roman
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