At 1154688301 past the epoch, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18516 2005-01-04 23:43 /sbin/shutdown > shutdown: you must be root to do that! The binary permissions are correct, so you can execute "shutdown", but it uses system calls which insist on you having uid=0. If you want users to be able to do "shutdown", take a look at the "ACCESS CONTROL" section of the shutdown(8) manpage. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/