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[andrewl at acay.com.au]

On Friday 22 October 2004 20:10, ewajacobs wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 17:53 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote
>
> > you need to have sudo set up to allow your user to run 'shutdown', and
> > possibly 'reboot', 'halt', and/or 'poweroff' as well.
>
> Nice try ;)
> But I already did 'chmod +s /sbin/poweroff' and the same for reboot ages
> ago, so that isn't the problem. :)
> Cheers

I have the following in my /etc/sudoers file and things seem to work, albeit 
from a gdm context, rather than startx. Substitute the appropriate name for 
username.

username  localhost=NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown -h now
username  LOCALHOST=NOPASSWD: /usr/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper *

Regards,

Andrew Lees