Did you check in Linuxconf under the user accounts section??
----- Original Message -----
From: Ikhlasul Amal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 1999 6:15 PM
Subject: [newbie] The shutdown and halt user
> I met on /etc/passwd that there exist shutdown and halt username. When I
> tried to use their feature (shutdown and halt as shell), I got an error
> message telling that I had no permission for using shutdown. How can I
> set shutdown so certain users/groups are allowed executing it without
> having to have root previledge? (I ever met that option on one
> configuration dialog -- but, ooppss, forget what it was!)
>
> --
> @mal
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