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Why can I run halt/reboot commands as normal user?
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- 02-05-2005 #1Just Joined!
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halt/reboot
Why can I run halt/reboot commands as normal user?
How can I do to run with normal user?
- 02-05-2005 #2Linux Guru
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well you dont realy want to be able to do thoes as a normal user... but in a shell you can su(switch user) then preform thease tasks
enter then root passwdCode:su - root
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- 02-06-2005 #3Linux Engineer
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It was orgionally done this way to because Linux was made as a server and or workstation and as a server it is more secure to only have root shutdown a server. Most of the time shutdown is in /sbin/shutdown. I usually create a group add the users i want to it. I call it shutdown group, then I chmod g+x /sbin/shutdown. That fixes it for me.
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