usb-kb

I just installed Potato (r6 from CD) on my home built box (SOYO Dragon KT-333 MOBO). I installed win98SE, w2kp and XP Pro (in that order) before installing Potato. During the install a borrowed s PS/2 keyboard from a friend because my USB keyboard would not work during installation. I made sure

2.2r3 install from CD problem

First, excuse the longwindedness, I thought the background may be relevent. I was installing 2.2r3 from an official CD set I got from linux central , things were going pretty well (except for a few failed module/driver installs) The base install whent fine, I selected task packages with apt and th

shutdown permission to users?

How can I give my users or a group permision to shutdown and halt the machine? I have added /etc/shutdown.allow containing the users names, as per Running Linux 3rd Ed. page 77. (I seperated the names with newlines.) This did not work. I notice that the group and world permission bits for readi