session management and shutdown

Bernhard Walle Bernhard.Walle at gmx.de
Sun Jul 6 13:05:04 CEST 2003


On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 at 23:13 (+0200), Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> On Sat, 05, Jul 2003, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > if I try to shutdown with the newest version I get the error message
> > that the system administrator ....
> > But I already added /sbin/shutdown to sudo, the visudo entry is:
> > bwalle  ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown
> > with previous versions (where the option was in the settings dialog) it
> > worked.
> > sudo /sbin/shutdown works, too.
> 
> /sbin/shutdown is no longer used (had problems I was unable to fix).
> Its now /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff and /sbin/halt (see the
> xfce4-shutdown program). Also make sure xfce4-shutdown is not setuid
> to root, or sudo will not be used.

Thanks. It works now.

Regards,
Bernhard

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