On 17-Oct-2009 Robert wrote: > > > 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 ? >> > I'm not going to verify this right now but I believe "buz" can execute > the command "poweroff" to shutdown -h now > and "reboot" to shutdown -r now. > > [rj at mavis rj]$ ls -l `which poweroff` > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 2 2009 /usr/bin/poweroff -> > consolehelper > [rj at mavis rj]$ ls -l `which reboot` > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 2 2009 /usr/bin/reboot -> > consolehelper > [rj at mavis rj]$ >From the man page: If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6, in other words when it's running normally, shutdown will be invoked instead (with the -h or -r flag). For more info see the shutdown(8) manpage. -Philip