[CentOS] allowing users to issue the "shutdown" command

[Marcelo M. Garcia]

Buz Davis wrote:
> I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts "root" and 
> "buz".  I would like to be able to issue "shutdown" from the account 
> "buz", and thus created
> /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry  "buz" (without any quotes).  
> I still
> get the error message "only root can do this" (or something similar) 
> even if I include the '-a' option on the shutdown command.  What am I 
> missing ?
Hi

You can use sudo and issue "sudo shutdown" from your buz account.

Regards

mg.