quick question: shutdown and permissions [solved]

[rimian]

Hello,

I've been meaning to learn more to solve this myself but i haven't got around to it yet.

if i want to shut down my machine i have to log out of kde[3.4] then change to super user and run shutdown. what's the best way for me to make shutdown easier? change the permissions perhaps? i don't know where.

thanks in advance.
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[omp]

I would recommend installing sudo and giving your user the access to the shutdown and reboot commands. sudo is very handy if you want to give a user permissions to certain commands that would normally require root.
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[runningwithscissors]

Another option would be to create a new group of users who can shut down the machine, and changing the group ownership of /sbin/halt to that new group.

[rimian]

thanks!

both of those answers helped. i found a howto here:

http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/stirling/computergeek/shutdown.html
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