Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT
16.11.2002 00:14:34, Levi Waldron <levi.waldron@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>On November 15, 2002 03:31 pm, Llies Meridja wrote:
>
>> No it does not work, first when I choose GNOME session and do
>> ctrl+alt+del nothing happens, then when I log to KDE session and do
>> ctrl+alt+del I get system guard!
>
>Did you try Nate's advice? Log in, open a terminal (xterm, for example),
>then do as he says:
>
>> once logged in do 'su' and input the root password when prompted,
>> then issue the 'halt' command to halt the system.
>>
>
>
>If you don't like logging in as root whenever you shut down, you could give
>your userid permission to do some commands as root:
>
>1) Type "su" in a terminal to log in as root
>2) visudo
>3) move to the bottom of the file, and type "i" to enter insert mode
>4) type the line (Replace username with your username):
>
>username ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/poweroff
>
>5) <ESC> :wq to exit
>6) Now your regular user can type /sbin/halt to poweroff. Additionally, you
>could put the following line in your user's /home/username/.bashrc file:
>
>alias halt="/sbin/halt"
shouldn't that read
alias halt="sudo /sbin/halt"
or even better
alias halt="/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/halt"
>
>OR,
>
>alias anynicknameIwant="/sbin/halt"
>
>(with the editor of your choice, or using vi filename and the same "insert"
>and save & quit commands as visudo)
>
>7) From then on, your regular user can shut down just by typing "halt" into
>a shell. You could even make an icon or menu item to do it.
>
>You might want to add other commands in visudo, like /usr/bin/xcdroast (for
>writing CDs).
>
>Hope this helps,
>Levi
- Michael
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