On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Satya wrote:
>On Mar 18, 2000 at 20:38, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>
>>I have to be root to run shutdown and halt. If I run it as any other
>>user, it asks for a password.
>
>Because you're on the console. The *physical* console.
>
>> I assume this is the root password, and
>
>No, it's the password of $USER
>
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