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/


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