RE: [newbie] Non-root shutdown

1999-09-17 Thread Andy Goth
Check As Root - Linuxconf_User accounts_permissions - select "shutdown" in the granted column, Quit, Activate. I've already done that. Logout, Login as User, Try "reboot" or "halt" from a terminal, or you can logout, then use the GUI login screen to select Halt/Reboot. The GUI login

[newbie] Non-root shutdown

1999-09-16 Thread Andy Goth
So I'm logged in as someone other than root, and I want to shutdown. My name is in /etc/shutdown.allow, but even when I type /sbin/shutdown -a now, it complains that I'm not root. So what's the purpose of shutdown.allow and the -a switch? And what a contradiction! I _can't_ shutdown even