allow a user to shutdown from shell

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:45:52AM +0000, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> how can I allow a user to enter "shutdown -h now" and shutdown the
> computer (or restart, whichever)? This is in a FC3 minimal environment, no
> x-windows.

There are already "poweroff" and "restart" commands set up with
usermode/consolehelper support such that anyone at the physical console can
run them with no authentication.



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