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On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:21:47AM +0000, Prabu Subroto wrote:
> Dear my friends...
> 
> I want each user of a desktop can shutdown the desktop after they are  
> finished with their job on the desktop.
> 
> Till now only root can do shutdown.
> 
> How can I do to make the non-root user can shutdown and reboot a debian  
> box.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.

Look at the sudo package, which enables you to give specific users 
(or any user) root access for specific commands (or any command).  

HTH,
David


-- 
David Jardine

"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it."  -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)



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