On 02/11/2007, Qingye Jiang (John) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to shutdown Indiana as a regular user, there is a warning > saying that I don't have the privilege to shutdown my machine. At the > same time I can't login to Gnome with root, so the only option is to su > from a regular user, then use the shutdown or poweroff command. > > Is this behavior by design? It seems to be somewhat troublesome.
You can't login as root because root is a role. You can however login as a normal user, then "su" to root, and then perform and "init 5" or use the "shutdown" command to shutdown. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
