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daedalusman

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From: CO, USA

Registered: 2006-12-05

Posts: 258

shutting down and restarting always ask for password in xfce4.4

I'm having this problem, I have the sudoer file setup correctly as per the wiki instructions but this does not fix things. If I do 'visudo' in terminal and then try and restart or shutdown my computer it doesn't ask me for my password. But if I just restart and don't use visudo, xfce will ask for my password when trying to shutdown or restart. How can I fix this, it is very annoying? Thanks for any help.

Last edited by daedalusman (2007-03-10 01:09:27)

baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

Re: shutting down and restarting always ask for password in xfce4.4

the preferred way to enable shutdown in xfce4.4 is to use hal. the shutdown helper will try hal first and then fall back to sudo, if hal doesn't work.
to enable shutdown via hal, make sure the hal daemon is running and add your user to the 'power' group.