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voodoo.child

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Registered: 2007-11-01

Posts: 30

shutdown by normal user

what permission should i give to a normal user to be able to shutdown?

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: shutdown by normal user

AFAIK, there's no group for shutdown and poweroff commands. Your best bet is to set up sudo to allow the user to run the command without a password.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo

Once you've done that you can shut down with sudo <command>.  You can then use an alias in your .bashrc to make shutdown point to the sudo command:

alias poweroff='sudo poweroff'

etc

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From: Castalia

Registered: 2007-02-02

Posts: 368

Re: shutdown by normal user

quick and dirty:
chmod +s /sbin/{reboot,poweroff}

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: shutdown by normal user

You need to inform us in *how*, that is by what method, do you want user to be able to shut down?

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zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

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Re: shutdown by normal user

I found the easiest method to be the one where you add the user you want to grant these privileges to the power-group.

# gpasswd -a user power

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