Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root
If you do not like sudo switch to text consol with leftAlt+leftCntrl+F1
and do Alt+Cntrl+Del. Depending on your configuration it will do either
shutdown or reboot. Change the configuration if you do not like the
effect.
Lazar
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:33, 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.
> >
> > You can enable or disable this by configuring the KDE login manager.
>
> Does anyone know how I can do this from GNOME? Its annoying to have to
> logout and then shutdown.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shri
>
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