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From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: Shutting down as user
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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.

Add yourself to the "operator" group. Just edit /etc/group.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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