On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:14:47 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:

> ** 2.)Still in GNOME: in gshutdown, how do I make normal user accounts able 
> to shutdown/reboot without the need for su/sudoing at the console? I would 
> appreciate such as some of our computers here are turned on/off on a regular 
> basis.Chmoding gshutdown doesn't do the deed as it would still prompt out 
> that the user needs to be the superuser to reboot or shutdown the system.

Install the package sudo. Its very easy to use. All knowledge you need to
run some root kommands with sudo as user is in: man sudo.

I have an extra symbol for gshutdown at panel, which starts it with:

save-session & sudo gshutdown

Timo

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