hi,
i recently switched to suse. i find that an ordinary user cannot issue a poweroff command from shell. i get a msg "must be a super user". is there any way so that a ordinary user can also issue a poweroff command.

also how do i edit the startup services. the booting is very slow and i want to remove the unnecessary services that start automatically.

and one last one, is there a way to disable automatic disk check when the computer is not shut down properly.

thanks.

I think you'll either need to delve into 'sudo' or 'sticky bit permissions' to make poweroff work from the shell for non-root users. Or if you do not expressly need it as a command line option and can have users do the same from a GUI... simply changing the following line in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager will provide the option in gnome/kde...
DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN="all"

from yast2 ... system ... system services (runlevel). This gives a pretty interface.

yeah.. in fstab ... but just dont. a few extra seconds or a trashed filesystem isn't much of a choice.

cheers

hi,
thanks. they all worked.