On Tue, 9 May 2006 11:36:42 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > when I go to shut down the laptop, the shutdown command will not work > from my regular user, I have to su to be able to shutdown -- I use > fluxbox, and I know this works properly in gnome/kde, I was just > wondering if there was a way it could be made to work in fluxbox -- I > don't mind opening a terminal and typing the command, I would, like to > be able to avoid having to su though
sudo would seem the obvious solution. Add shutdown to /etc/sudoers for your user, without a password, and use 'sudo shutdown...' to shutdown. Use visudo to edit /etc/sudoers, don't edit it directly. -- Neil Bothwick Three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't.
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