----- Original Message ----
From: Jeremy Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mark A. Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, 26 February, 2007 9:49:58 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] simple sudoers question
Mark A. Bell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running Ubuntu Edgy and I want to give myself permission to halt
> my system without using sudo and a password. I've added the following
> to /etc/sudoers using visudo:
>
> mark localhost = NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt
>
> But still I get a message that I 'need to be root'. Can someone help?
I know that you can do:
sudo chmod +s /sbin/halt
...because you said you wanted to do it _without_ sudo. That's the only
way if you want to do it without using sudo.
> Also, do changes to /etc/sudoers become effective immediately, or do
> I need to restart something to make my system recognize them?
I think as long as you use visudo it should take effect immediately.
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Thanks Jeremy!
Now I see what I was doing wrong. I should have used:
$ sudo /sbin/halt
This does the trick nicely - no need to type my password.
- mark
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