[mythtv-users] Can I SU to root w/o typing a password?

Chris Petersen lists at forevermore.net
Fri Jul 18 10:56:44 EDT 2003


> I'm running mythfrontend on my X-Box and when the frontend exits it runs
> "halt" to shut off the x-box.  However, halt must be run as root and my
> x-box logs in as a different user by default.

what's with that?  I can run both "halt" and "poweroff" from any user
logged into the console.  Maybe it's just a redhat thing, though.

-Chris



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