Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 20:40, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (11/11/03 19:33), Andreas Janssen wrote:
> > Clive Menzies (<clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>) wrote:
> > > On (11/11/03 16:28), Iago Sineiro wrote:
> > >> I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is
> > >> it possible?
> > >>
> > >> Note: I want to do it in one box with Debian that doesn't have
> > >> command sudo and I don't want to install it.
> > >
> > > FWIW KDE3.1 gives me reboot/shutdown options as an ordinary user - it
> > > configured itself that way, so I can't tell you how it is done.
KDE _has_ root privileges by default. And as you can control kde, you may
shutdown as an ordinary user, yes.
> >
> > You can enable or disable this by configuring the KDE login manager.
>
> That is so cool - there is so much stuff that you can control ;)
>
> Thanks Andreas
>
> Regards
>
> Clive
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