[ale] shutdown as non-root

James S. Cochrane cochrane at mindspring.com
Thu Apr 10 23:27:25 EDT 2003


sudo is your friend.

James

At 11:16 PM 4/10/03 -0400, you wrote:
>How can I set my laptop so a non-root user can shut it down ( shutdown -h 
>now )
>
>Heres what I get when I try to shutdown now:
>
>thomas at inspiron:~$ shutdown -h now
>shutdown: you must be root to do that!
>
>
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