On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:16:06AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Using debian on a stand-alone laptop I usually work as an ordinary > user and find somewhat awkward the fact that I have to su in order > to shutdown the PC. Is there a way to power my PC off as a user?
The other solution is to use `visudo' to edit the `sudoers' file. If you add a line like this: User_Alias TRUSTIES=larry,mo,curley and then in addition: TRUSTIES ALL=/sbin/shutdown the effect will be that users larry, mo and curley will be allowed to execute the `shutdown' command by doing: sudo shutdown -h now They will be prompted for a password which of course must be given correctly before the command is executed. Obviously you have to *really* trust larry, mo, and curley for this to be a reasonable thing to do. But on a machine where there's only root and you, it hardly seems like such a risk, Jim