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 ? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > IIRC, shutdown.allow doesn't work that way. It's a way to prevent arbitrary people logged into a console from issuing a ctrl-alt-del reboot sequence. You'll either need to set up a 'sudo' capability for that account to run shutdown, or do something like outlined here: http://www.patoche.org/LTT/all/00000059.html I'd prefer the sudo approach. -Alan