Hey guys...

Using Fedora core 1
with 2.4.24 - crypto-loop-AES kernel
and updated mount / losetup / umount binary's

ive created the file /etc/shutdown.allow
and added my user name and root
to the file in the format specified by `man shutdown`

however when i issue the command as standard user
shutdown -ah now
or
shutdown -a now
or
shutdown -a -h now

i get the message
"only root can do that !"

uve followed the instructions in man shutdown exactly...
what's up with my sustem ?

i need to allow users without root permissions to shutdown the machine.
But i REEAY dont want to use the ctrl-alt-delete method.

Users were able to shutdown with GNOME...
but GNOME wasunstable, so im using KDE 3.2.

thanKS for any help or surgestions

There is a howto here:

http://www.patoche.org/LTT/all/00000059.html

My machine at home is a single-user desktop, so what I did was just:

chmod u+s /sbin/halt

so that any user can shutdown the machine with the "halt" command. Obviously, that is not a good idea for a multi-user machine.