Hi, And you can do ln -fs /sbin/shutdown /usr/bin/shutdown and then shutdown is in the typical users path, so the user just does shutdown -h now
Derek. On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Hugo Vincent wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > I set up a PC for my parents to do their email on, with Mandrake 10 > > and Firefox/Thunderbird, but for some reason, their is no Shutdown > > item on the menu. I can't remember how to allow the normal user to run > > /sbin/shutdown as root (something in /etc/sudoers perhaps)? Can > > someone please shed some light on the situation. > > > > Cheers, > > Hugo. > > > > > Use "chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown" then everyone can use "/sbin/shutdown -h > 0" or something. > > -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when (apparently) receiving a Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me......
