From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 17:59:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60A2A16A512 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:59:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D090443DF1 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:58:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kADHvMkI002452; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:57:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id kADHvMQk002451; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:57:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:57:22 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Rem P Roberti Message-ID: <20061113175722.GA2385@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <4558A560.4050004@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4558A560.4050004@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Shutting down as user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:59:30 -0000 On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to > shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know > that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have > that problem on my desktop, but I'm pretty new to all of this and would > appreciate a heads up on how to shut down as user. Thanks. In some way or other, shutdown must be done by root, or possibly by someone in the operator group. You can log in as root -- for which you will need the root password You can 'su' to root from a regular account -- for which you will need the root password AND be in the wheel group. You can create an alkternate root account (recommended) and log in as that id or su to it -- which requires creating the account with password. You can put your account in the operator group -- You can install and set up 'sudo' to do the shutdown and allow your id access to it. All of these ways require you to have root access to set them up. They can also be done in 'single user' mode which runs with root priviledge. All of this is well covered in the handbool and other documentation. ////jerry > > Rem > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"