Need help rebooting
 

Greetings,

I am still fairly new to linux so this is probably a very newbie-ish question, I have searched the forums, but can't find an answer to my question =/

I installed Slackware 9.1 and everything works great as root.
I then made a new regular user. When I try to log out of X I do not get the "Reboot" option and when at the prompt neither reboot nor shutdown -r now will work. I have to su back to root to shut the system down.

And guidance on how to enable shutdown / reboot for a normal user?

Thanks in advance,
SynnerST

I hope this will be at least a little help. I'm away from Slack box so I can't poke around to give detailed steps. Look at the forums for graphical logon with slackware, or using kdm with slack. Using kdm as a logon manager gives you those options by default. however this means you will boot straight into gui mode. to avoid it simply type the name of your kernel followed by a 3 at the lilo prompt. For me it looks like this:

phobos 3

Or as root you can simply add permissions to your user. I beleive you will need to add your user to the operator group or change permisisons on shutdown.

search the slackware forum for the phrase "user shutdown" and you should get a good bit of help. I hope I, at the very least, pointed you in the right direction.

I changed initdefault in /etc/inittab from a 3 to a 4 an now X boots automaticaly. The Window Manager that I chose was Gnome.

I will do some more looking around on these boards and see if I can come up with a way to change the permisions then.

Thanks for your help =)

Problem Solved (sort of)

In Gnome:
>Applications
>System Tools
>Login Screen Setup

On the fourth tab "Security" click the "Show Actions Menu" button. This will enable a button on the log in screen which will allow any user to shutdown / reboot the machine =)

I figured I would post my solution should anyone later search the forums for the same problem.

SynnerST

Thanks, I hope your solution works because I'm going to try it when I get home.
My Gentoo installed GDM had the menuitems, but slack don't, so hope this work.

Also, try putting your "normal" user in /etc/sudoers and give him the right to use "/sbin/halt" or "/sbin/reboot".

Hope this helps! :D