Dear All,
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, it just seems like the most suitable place to ask this.

I am a single user of my own machine, and I would like to give myself access to the reboot command, tather than su ing then doing it ot just doing ctrl-alt-del. This is a learning experience and I would like the satisfaction of knowing how to do it.

I have already tries chown <username> /sbin/.reboot and chmod 777 /sbin/reboot to no avail. Can anyone please help?

Thanx beforehand

You need to change permissions on /sbin/halt because /sbin/reboot is a symlink to halt
chmod 755 /sbin/halt should suffice

Nope. I did as u advised. First i exited the X server, and logged out completely. Logged in as root, and did a c

cd /sbin
chmod 755 halt
exit

then logged in as the regular user and typed in
reboot

and it said

must be superuser


Any ideas?

It's either installing sudo, use PAM or try this:
open up /etc/inittab and look for the line where you CTRL+ALT+DEL, and add "-a" to shutdown args.
echo $LOGNAME >> /etc/shutdown.allow
now you're allowed to shutdown using the 3 finger salute.
If you're using PAM you can change the /etc/pam.d config for the shutdown service using allow lists. Add an "auth" line under the last auth statement w/o quotes: "auth required /lib/security/pam_listfile.so item=user sense=allow file=/etc/pam.d/shutdown.allow onerr=fail"
echo $LOGNAME >> /etc/pam.d/shutdown.allow.
Haven't tested the PAM solution for shutdown, but this works on other services so it should work with shutdown as well.

unSpawn you kinda lost me. I do not with to shut down using ctr-alt-del. What I wish to do is simply allow a normal user, to use the reboot command without having to be root (superuser).

Shutdown does what you ask it to do depending on the flag, "-h" for halt and "-r" for reboot, so...

hmmm but how do i make a REGULAR user access the shutdown or even reboot commands?

did you ignore /sbin/halt hint, or SuSE has different setup?
Also look at sudo

Also what /etc/pam.d/halt looks like ?

I quote myself
As for /etc/pam.d/halt, I will let you know as soon as I reboot to Linux. I'm running Winblows at the moment

man sudo

Regards

Check the man page on "shutdown" for /etc/shutdown.allow.

Hey, stop confusing this guy with the wrong answers!! i saw this post yesterday cuz I had the same issue and I found the solution!!

man sudoers

actually just go to /etc and edit sudoers. at the end of the file there should be 3 commented out lines to the tune of 'examples' and two examples beneath. change one to say (don't quote me on the syntax)

$:users allow:/sbin/shutdown -h now NOPASSWD:ALL

like i said look up 'man sudoers' to get the syntax right if my memory is wrong also to reboot just duplicate the line and replace '-h' with '-r'

you shouldn't have to even check the man pages if you're astute enough!!

BTW halt and reboot can only be run in runlevel 1 and 6, if they are called in ANY other runlevel it tels the system ./sbin/shutdown -h now

freakin lamerz

Um, you answered a thread that is a year and a half old. I think they moved on.

it's my hot body, i'll do what i want

um.. for the benefit of others.
i'm sick of round about answers on web forms. so i took matters into my own hands. besides, if it's so damn old... WTF!! why are you replying to me?