[gentoo-user] Non-root reboot

2003-08-01 Thread Lares Weaselle
I would like to be able to reboot/halt my laptop while a user. I don't like to have to superuser to do so. Any thoughts? -- Later Days, Lares Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, Imagination encircles the world -- Albert Einstein -- [E

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-root reboot

2003-08-01 Thread Marius Mauch
On 08/01/03 Lares Weaselle wrote: > I would like to be able to reboot/halt my laptop while a user. I > don't like to have to superuser to do so. Any thoughts? If you use ACPI emerge acpid-1.0.2-r2 (you need -r2 for a working default config) you can poweroff your laptop with the power button. H

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-root reboot

2003-08-01 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 02 August 2003 10:13, Lares Weaselle wrote: > I would like to be able to reboot/halt my laptop while a user. I don't > like to have to superuser to do so. Any thoughts? Umm, make the executables suid? chmod +s /sbin/halt /sbin/reboot They are not on the default path of an ordinary

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-root reboot

2003-08-01 Thread Luke Macken
There's always ALT+CTRL+DEL. I've never used anything else. luke > On Saturday 02 August 2003 10:13, Lares Weaselle wrote: > I would like to be able to reboot/halt my laptop while a user. I don't > like to have to superuser to do so. Any thoughts? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-root reboot

2003-08-01 Thread Jason Stubbs
LOL! I've been using kdm and X for so long that such a simple solution didn't even occur to me. On Saturday 02 August 2003 10:55, Luke Macken wrote: > There's always ALT+CTRL+DEL. I've never used anything else. > > luke > > > On Saturday 02 August 2003 10:13, Lares Weaselle wrote: > > I would li

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-root reboot

2003-08-02 Thread Tom Knight-Markiegi
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:32:01AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > On 08/01/03 Lares Weaselle wrote: Hi > > > I would like to be able to reboot/halt my laptop while a user. I > > don't like to have to superuser to do so. Any thoughts? > > If you use ACPI emerge acpid-1.0.2-r2 (you need -r2 for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-root reboot

2003-08-02 Thread Meka[ni]
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 19:13:52 -0600 Lares Weaselle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to be able to reboot/halt my laptop while a user. I don't > like to have to superuser to do so. Any thoughts? > -- > Later Days, > Lares > > Imagination is more important than knowledge. > Knowledge is