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 sh
`shutdown` checks a file /etc/shutdown.allow (which is just a list of
usernames) for users allowed to run it. Everyone that you want to have
permissions to shut down the machine should have their username listed in
/etc/shutdown.allow.
-Matt
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Ikhlasul Amal wrote:
> I me
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 ha
