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On Tue, 9 May 2006 11:36:42 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: |
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> when I go to shut down the laptop, the shutdown command will not work |
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> from my regular user, I have to su to be able to shutdown -- I use |
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> fluxbox, and I know this works properly in gnome/kde, I was just |
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> wondering if there was a way it could be made to work in fluxbox -- I |
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> don't mind opening a terminal and typing the command, I would, like to |
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> be able to avoid having to su though |
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sudo would seem the obvious solution. Add shutdown to /etc/sudoers for |
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your user, without a password, and use 'sudo shutdown...' to shutdown. |
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Use visudo to edit /etc/sudoers, don't edit it directly. |
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