Re: Non-root shutdown

[Andreas Balser <a ba gmx de>]

> [mark Godzilla mark]$ /sbin/shutdown -h -t 0 now
> shutdown: you must be root to do that!
> [mark Godzilla mark]$
> [mark Godzilla mark]$ ls -al /sbin/shutdown
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        14952 Mar 14  2002 /sbin/shutdown
> [mark Godzilla mark]$

Have you tried the suid-bit?
"chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown"

That's how I use rdate...

Andreas

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