Hi, On my system, I use following commands, it needn't root privilege:
shutdown: dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal \ /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer \ org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Shutdown reboot: dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal \ /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer \ org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Reboot I think other system (eg. Fedora, Ubuntu), should be OK. >>>>> Christopher Roy Bratusek <[email protected]> writes: > Hi all, I just added reboot/shutdown menu entries for non > GNOME/KDE users > root-menu -> session -> [here] > here are the instructions how to setup sudo to let non-root users > be able to call `shutdown' (only applies to `shutdown' binary, no > other one): > (also in README.IMPORTANT) > reboot/shutdown from root-menu ****************************** > The sawfish root-menu has a session sub-menu which allows you to > reboot and/or shutdown your machine. If you use GNOME or KDE, no > additional work by you is required. But if you use sawfish > standalone, you have to make sure that you're allowed to execute > `shutdown', there are several ways to achieve that, the suggested > approach is to use sudo combined with a group called shutdown: > ;; add a new group called `shutdown' groupadd shutdown > ;; add user to the `shutdown' group adduser misterx shutdown > ;; add the group `shutdown' to sudoers visudo > ;; add the following: %shutdown ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: > /sbin/shutdown > That's it, now everyone in the shutdown group can do it! > Chris
