Shutdown and Reboot permission

[bidi]

So I reinstalled Slackware 10.1 last week. I was going to install 10.2, but I thought a little about and still hadn't had mastered 10.1 yet, and I really don't need the up-to-date packages, but that's beside the point anyway. Since the reinstall, I hadn't created a user account till today. Basically I didn't need to since I was doing some system configuration and learning (and I don't have internet, so I don't have to worry about anything from that end either). So after poking around for a while, I decided it's time to have a user (me).

Enough side tracking, let me get to the point. Now, when I have to shutdown or reboot the system (which I do a lot since I need to have a network connection for times like these) I have to log out then log in as root and shutdown/reboot. Pretty annoying! I'm using Xfce4 incase anyone needs to know.

I'll get to the no internet problem another day, I think I already post too much anyway.

[chopin1810]

That is quite annoying. I had to do the same thing in FreeBSD, so I guess it must be something with more advanced distros.
In answer to your question: I don't know.

[drakebasher]

...I think I already post too much anyway.

I was gonna say...

Take a look at your sudoers file, It gets edited with the 'visudo' command. I think there is a line you can put in there that will allow a user or all users to have permission to use shutdown, halt or any other command.

[oz]

use the command "visudo" to add this to sudoers:

User_Alias USERS = username
Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown
USERS ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN

[oz]

...or if you want to shutdown using XFCE4's shutdown menu, you can follow these instructions for setting up the /etc/sudoers file, but I don't remember where xfsm-shutdown-helper is in Slackware (but it may be at /usr/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper):

http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/documenta...#xfsm-shutdown

[dyn0myt3]

Enough side tracking, let me get to the point. Now, when I have to shutdown or reboot the system (which I do a lot since I need to have a network connection for times like these) I have to log out then log in as root and shutdown/reboot. Pretty annoying! I'm using Xfce4 incase anyone needs to know.

Hey Bidi. I too am fairly new and I just discovered this problem. Just a thought but what about changing the permissions for the shutdown script? This seems easy enough but not sure if its possible.

And for all you Pro's out there; why is this such an issue? You add a user account and now you created a nightmare of trying to bring functionality to that account. a serious pain in the a$$.

[dyn0myt3]

use the command "visudo" to add this to sudoers:

User_Alias USERS = username
Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown
USERS ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN

Ok, I m a n00b, how do I edit the file? I ran the visudo cmd and I got a page that shows examples but I don't know how to edit the actual file.
THanks
Dyn0

[drakebasher]

I ran the visudo cmd and I got a page that shows examples but I don't know how to edit the actual file.

If you got there from the visudo command, that is the page. But it has examples in it already for us n00bs. You can delete the '#' at the beginning of a line if you want to "uncomment" it, or you can add your own lines. You might even want to add some notes of your own like this:

# Following line changed 9/19/05 to allow user shutdown