Otto Wyss wrote:
On my desktop system I'd like to make certain commands requiring root(i.e. halt) available to ordinary users. What choices do are there?Are there already any script which makes a desktop linux system more user friendly? O. Wyss
Check 'sudo'. The respective entry in /etc/sudoers would be sk ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff (replace sk by your username). You can now run 'sudo halt' etc. as an ordinary user. If you define alias halt='sudo halt' then this is exactly what you want. Regards Sven