Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:35:54AM +0200, christophe barbé wrote: | On machine with only one user, it's a waste of time to return to gdm | to halt your machine. | | gshutdown allows to halt or restart your machine from the gnome session. Only when run as root. I recently noticed that program and

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-09 Thread christophe barbé
On machine with only one user, it's a waste of time to return to gdm to halt your machine. gshutdown allows to halt or restart your machine from the gnome session. On ximian box, when you logout from gnome, a dialog box prompt you for : 1. logout from X session 2. halt the machine 3. restart the

Re: Again: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread der.hans
Am 07. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Timeboy so: > how can i use the command shutdown -h now as user. Like to use it in a > shell script. No #su, password, etc. please! Set it up in sudo using the NOPASSWD option. I have that on my laptop. I then stuck it in a script ( alias would work as well ). Now as a n

Again: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Timeboy
On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 14:31:21 +0200, i wrote: > ** > ** Hi! > ** > ** What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? > ** > ** Timo > ** Now i write: how can i use the command shutdown -h now as user. Like to use it in a shell script. No #su, password, etc. please! Timo

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Timeboy
On 07 Jul 2001 14:34:34 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > ** On 07 Jul 2001 14:31:21 +, Timeboy wrote: > ** > > ** > Hi! > ** > > ** > What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? > ** > ** From Gnome or from console? Conslole! Or: A shell script, that i can run without root permission.

Re: [users] Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Martin F. Krafft
> | What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? install appropriate entries into /etc/sudoers (assuming that 'sudo' is installed: User_Alias SHUTDOWNERS = Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown /sbin/halt /sbin/reboot SHUTDOWNERS ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN martin; (gr

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: | | Hi! | | What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? I use sudo from the console. I usually have gdm running now and by changinge the line SystemMenu=0 to SystemMenu=1 in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (as the comment above it says) will

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? > > Timo > Hello Timo, I do it like this... su root halt HTH, Jim Richards > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? There are different ways... One way is to use "sudo". Some people like it, others are scared of it. Read the acrhives and you decide for yourself. Refer to the current thread ab

Re: shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 07 Jul 2001 14:31:21 +, Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? >From Gnome or from console? -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

shutdown as user

2001-07-07 Thread Timeboy
Hi! What can i do to use shutdown as normal user? Timo