----- Original Message ----- From: "Ow Mun Heng" <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [FC1] Insufficient rights when trying to shut down > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 09:09, Muñoz Aparicio, Esther wrote: > > Everything is working fine as root, but now, every time me or my > > husband try to, for example, shut down the computer (when logged as > > ourselves), Gnome complains that we have insufficent rights. The same > > happens with any program that used to ask for root password when > > invoked from Gnome: the pop-up message says "Insufficient rights" and > > that's all. > > That's cause to invoke the shutdown command, > you have to be root! Unless of course you grant access > to the "shutdown" command using sudo. > > Alternatively, you can try "poweroff" or "reboot" > which works w/o needing root admin rights. > > (it's a security hazard but if it's your own PC, it's > deemed ok) > > HTH > > cheers, > ow Out of the box, you must be superuser to use "reboot" or "poweroff". In run level 0 or 6 they call shutdown with the appropriate flag ie -h or -r. Example output below: [mlm@paddles mlm]$ reboot reboot: must be superuser. [mlm@paddles mlm]$ poweroff poweroff: must be superuser. Mike
