Re: my (simple) sudoers doesn't work

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:43:04PM +0200, Gauthier Vandemoortele wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wish to halt|shutdown| sleep my machine as an unprivilegied user on
> the command-line or via the menu of a light window-manager.
> 
> Here's my /etc/sudoers
> 
>     Defaults        env_reset
>     
>     # User alias specification
>     User_Alias     STOP = gv
>     
>     # Cmnd alias specification
>     Cmnd_Alias     SLEEP = /usr/sbin/acpitool -S
>     Cmnd_Alias     HALT = /usr/sbin/halt
>     Cmnd_Alias     REBOOT = /usr/sbin/reboot
>     
Try putting a wildcard at the end.  Presumably you're actually running
something like "halt now", correct?  So sudoers, I think, should show
the command as "/usr/sbin/halt *"

-Rob