Hi all,

I am running Slackware 12 and would like to be able to shutdown my system from fluxbox. Issuing shutdown -h now as user zoran does not let me shutdown the machine (you are not root message).

My idea was to add myself to /etc/sudoers to allow me to shutdown with no password, but I am not sure if this is the way it should be done. How come the system can be shutdown from the login screen with no password? I remember on Ubuntu you couldn't use shutdown command (you are not root message) but from GNOME menu you could shutdown with no password.

I'm a bit confused. What is the best way to shutdown the machine with no password from the shell in fluxbox?

Thank you

The command

poweroff

should do it.

The permissions on the /sbin/shutdown file should look something like this:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23128 Dec 28 11:01 /sbin/shutdown
If they don't change the permissions so that at least the user zoran can execute the shutdown command. Also look at this site

Add your user to /etc/sudoers for the shutdown command. Mine looks like this to allow shutdown and reboot
COMP1 is the computer's hostname, so substitute yours in place of COMP1.

Another way, if you don't mind typing root's password:

Hello,

You should modify your /etc/sudoers file to include:

You can change %users (which allows all users) to just zoran (which would only allow zoran to issue these commands). This would then change to:

Also, localhost should be set to whatever your computer is called.

If you want to issue these commands from the Flux Menu instead of having to open a term window every time you to shutdown or reboot (a nice feature) - add this to your ~/.fluxbox/menu:

Sudo helped out

Thank you very much!