Shutdown Permissions

[apoorv_khurasia]

I have this annoying problem. Except root no other user on my box is authozied to execute the following commands:

shutdown
halt
reboot
poweroff etc.

These commands I believe should be executable by all "normal users". There exists no command such as "visudo" and I have tried using shutdown -a. None work, everytime I execute them I get the message:

Only root can do it.

Please suggest me some solution.

I have also tried making a shutdown group and adding me to it (as well as root) and then changing ownership of /sbin/shutdown to this group and then

chmod g+x /sbin/shutdown

[Game master pro]

You have to edit the file /etc/sudoers
In there there is a line that goes along the lines of "root ALL=(ALL)ALL" and under that there should be your username like "#BOB ALL=(ALL)ALL" uncomment the line by deleting the #. I do not know if this will work but you never know

[apoorv_khurasia]

You have to edit the file /etc/sudoers
In there there is a line that goes along the lines of "root ALL=(ALL)ALL" and under that there should be your username like "#BOB ALL=(ALL)ALL" uncomment the line by deleting the #. I do not know if this will work but you never know

There is no such file, infact visudio, as I wrote earlier is not recoginized by my machine. What do I need to emerge in order to make it work? Or is there some other way out?

[spencerf]

have a look at this Gentoo guide

[loft306]

here is a small step by step from the wiki on how to set this up http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Let_a_c...hutdown/reboot

[apoorv_khurasia]

here is a small step by step from the wiki on how to set this up http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Let_a_c...hutdown/reboot

I get this message when I type

Geiger@DeusExMachina ~ $ reboot
sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied

I followed all things mentioned on your link.