On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:41:16AM -0700, Mark Kalusha wrote: | How can I give my users or a group permision to | shutdown and halt the machine?
Others have already mentioned sudo. Another alternative is to use a display manager (such as gdm) that includes halt as a menu option. For gdm you need to change a line in the config file (under /etc). The config file commented and exlains that changing the line from '0' to '1' will enable the "system" menu. (Sorry, I don't have my box in front of me right now and I don't remember enough details to explain it). | ASIDE: | Note for you security concious peeps, the machine is | in my home no networked and the users are my family | members. This is a good group to allow to shutdown the system :-). What I miss is the option to shutdown in the GNOME logout confirmation dialog. It was there with RH (gnome 1.0.[something] through 1.2.[something]) ... -D
