On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:48:45PM +0200, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > AFAIC Matthew Seaman already gave you a wonderful suggestion to add > > yourself to the group "operator" and just use the command "shutdown" > > with your own rights only. Did you try this suggestion? > > Actually, it is wheel group. > To me it is "normal" to read mail and do something mundane in > console, to startx for browsing things that cannot be seen pro- > perly in lynx, to go back to console when done. I found no harm > su-ing in graphics and doing root work, like write to usb stick > or else. Eye catching is to use console in public, but...
Nope, wheel let's you use su(1) but not shutdown(8). You need to be in the operator group for that.
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