My solution was to put the following shell-script in ~/bin #!/bin/sh # Paul Mackinney's shutdown script for users that know the # root password su -c 'shutdown -h now'
Now when I try to shutdown from my user account, I just get prompted for the root password and it halts. The cool part about this is that I invariably forget that I'm not root, this avoids those irritating error msgs. Excercises for the newbie: 1. modify the script to support halt/restart arguments. 2. modify the script to incorporate the suggestion to have a user whose default shell is /bin/shutdown. This avoids using the root password, in case your terminal is insecure (telnet, etc.) Note that you might need to add a "/bin/shutdown" line to /etc/shells to make this work. :-) Paul -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- Please note new email address
