Re: shutdown prompt question

[Cristian Molina <megacorreo ciudad com ar>]

On sáb, 05 feb 2000, Dave S wrote:
> 
> Actually, commenting out the line doesn't work.
> If you comment it out, when i select halt or reboot, i'm simply immediately 
> kicked back to the login screen.
> So what i did was un-comment the lines and change the "required" to 
> "sufficient" and now that seems to work.
> However, only one odditiy - when i shutdown as root, every shuts down fine 
> and then i don't have to press my power off button - it automatically shuts 
> it down.
> When i shutdown (ie. logout->halt) as a regular user, all the processes 
> shutdown okay, but then it just sits at the screen with the last message 
> saying "Power down" and i must then do it manually.
> Not a big deal, but is there something i can do to make it shut the power 
> off for regular user hree too?
> 
> Thanks to everyone for their help so far! Learning lots!

my machine doesnt poweroff (is old :) but maybe the /etc/pam.d/poweroff file
is for that.
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  Cristian Molina <megacorreo@ciudad.com.ar>
           Junin-BsAs-Argentina
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