On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:00:26AM -0800, 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? > > Also, do changes to /etc/sudoers become effective immediately, or do I need > to restart something to make my system recognize them?
should happen the minute you save the file. you can run sudo -l to list all the commands and who they run as is your machine called localhost ? > > Thanks! > > - mark > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/m487396 > Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. > > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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