On 03/17/14 21:33, Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
On 03/17/14 01:29, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/16/2014 11:34 AM, g wrote:
which is 14 total terminals
what might be causing the difference?
You're also logged in at the GUI.
i thought that was covered by the tty1 - Xorg.
>
I understand that the number of users has nothing to do with the
authentication problem. Still I need root permission to poweroff when
using the GUI.
What can I do to get rid of this behaviour?
pete,
my apologies for 'breaking into' your thread. i should have
opened a new thread. but, i also thought a 'quick' question
would not have lasted. ;-)
i will try to answer your question from what is in my 'chemo brain'.
you do not state what desktop you are using.
i am using kde 4.3.4, which has has ability to 'shutdown' or
'poweroff' from a menu.
when booting level 3, and when i open kde, when i exit kde, and
want to shutdown or reboot form 'cl', i can do so because i have
edited '/etc/sudoers' with a line to allow me to run 'shutdown'
command.
if your 'de' does not allow via a menu, or you can not from 'cl';
1- to understand use, read 'man sudoers'. more complete info
about 'sudo'/'sudoers' is @;
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/man/1.8.10/sudoers.man.html
2- in a terminal, or from 'cl', run command;
]$ su -c visudo
look for line;
## Allows members of the users group to shutdown this system
# %users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
add line/s;
[yourusername] localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
[yourusername] localhost=/sbin/shutdown -r now
or
[yourusername] localhost=/sbin/poweroff
then close and save with ':qw', and reboot.
*be aware*:: using 'shutdown' or 'poweroff' from 'cl' should
_only_be_executed_outside_ of a 'de'.
there are ways to do such within a 'de', but they are more
involved. besides, booting up a system gives you opportunity
to learn to maintain a system outside of a gui and needs to
be learned for maintenance of a system when you can not do so
from a gui.
as stated, this is from 'chemo brain'. wait for Ed Greshko or
Joe Zeff, or other 'scholar' to verify.
--
peace out.
in a world with out fences, who needs gates.
tc.hago.
g
.
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