fluxbox - shutdown problem

[gabriel_007]

Hello
How do I shut down the computer from within fluxbox? Right now, when I hit "exit" in the menu it get's me to gdm, where I need my root password to turn off the computer.
How do I make things work just like in gnome?
Thank you very much in advance

[AndrewB]

you go to a terminal and type either
as root

init 0
or
shutdown -h now

you could also take a look at the menu conf file, not sure exactly
think it is
~/.fluxbox/menu.conf
and where you see exit fluxbox, instead of the current comand you could do

sudo shutdown -h now

[gabriel_007]

Thank you, but I've already tried that
I edited my menu, but than when I clicked the new "power off" button, nothing happened.
I've read that with xfce you have to edit some permissions in order to enable a common user to poweroff. Perhaps it's the same here? I don't know

[AndrewB]

Thank you, but I've already tried that
I edited my menu, but than when I clicked the new "power off" button, nothing happened.
I've read that with xfce you have to edit some permissions in order to enable a common user to poweroff. Perhaps it's the same here? I don't know

if you give me the link to where it says it i will tell you if it is the same, and it most prob is

[gabriel_007]

http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/documenta...4-session.html
Here, it's under Shutdown/reboot options.

[antidrugue]

As far as I understand this:
http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/documenta...#xfsm-shutdown

... it's pretty straith-forward. Just put yourself in the sudoers file.

First install sudo (if not already installed), so as root:

apt-get install sudo

Then, as root,

visudo

You will see at the end of the file a line like that:

root    ALL=(ALL) ALL

Just add a line after that one with your name:

gabriel_007   ALL=(ALL) ALL

Or, as they mention in the text, if you want to have just the permission to shutdown, nothing else:

gabriel_007 nameofyourcomputer=/usr/local/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper

[Gnux]

I've read that with xfce you have to edit some permissions in order to enable a common user to poweroff. Perhaps it's the same here? I don't know

Yes, the shutdown command is usually reserved to the root. So u need to make shutdown suid root that is to say that shutdown will continue to use some processes that can be only launched by the root but a user lambda could use it.
So:

chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown

that quite dangerous (anyone could switch off the computer) so usually we had a group only for the users suid root (like wheel under FreeBSD).
You have sudo too but I've always think it was more dangerous than this method....

[gabriel_007]

Thank you very much for your attention and help

First I tried the "sudo" method - editing the sudoers with visudo, but I encountered problems: in manual it's stated, that q should quit the program - but it didn't. I simply couldn't write the file - as there was no way I could exit visudo. Oh, well stupid me.

Then I used Gnux method, which enabled me to switch off my computer.
I have only one remaining question --->
When exitting gnome, or kde, the system displayed, that all processes one by one are killed/stopped.
Right now, it just exits fluxbox and waits. Than it just powers off.

Thank you

[eerok]

First I tried the "sudo" method - editing the sudoers with visudo, but I encountered problems: in manual it's stated, that q should quit the program - but it didn't. I simply couldn't write the file - as there was no way I could exit visudo. Oh, well stupid me.

Just for your info: debian uses vim for the visudo editor, so to save and exit you'd do <Esc>:wq<Enter>

Too late now, though ... glad you sorted it out anyway