[ale] shutdown as non-root

Thomas Holmquist fishy at ipa.net
Thu Apr 10 23:32:53 EDT 2003


But thats icky ;)

there HAS to be something built-in to shutdown that allows non-users to 
shutdown :-/

James S. Cochrane wrote:

> 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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