On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 08:20:31AM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote: > How are you rebooting? What groups are you in? From the command line? When > I try this on Ubuntu (don't have a RHEL/CentOS here) I get "Have to be > root" if I issue the /sbin/reboot command as an ordinary user. > > Cheers, > > Cliff Please try not to top post. Ubuntu and Debian require authorization to reboot. RedHat based distributions don't under various circumstances. I don't know what most other distributions do, the BSDs don't allow it, nor does ArchLinux. Whether it's something that's always been this way or just one more Fedora-ism aimed at the person fleeing Windows that made its way into RH, I have no idea. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6