From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 3: 4:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D770337B704 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 03:04:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.85.32]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000810110321.KEPR3760.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:03:21 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA07265; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:04:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:04:06 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Paul Herman Cc: Adam Hefetz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user permissions Message-ID: <20000810110406.B253@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:08:28AM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:08:28AM +0200, Paul Herman wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Adam Hefetz wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have problems with my user permissions. When trying to reboot I get this: > > > > $ shutdown -r now > > bash: /sbin/shutdown: Permission denied > > Indeed, you have to be super-user to use shutdown itself. However, if > you are a member of the "operator" group, you can also use shutdown, Doh! Sorry, I said the "wheel" group. My bad. -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message