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.


-- 
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