Are you using kde? Which Display Manager are you using? GDM, KDM, XDM?<br><br>chmod +s /sbin/halt is not a good idea.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/27/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">R. Geoffrey Newbury</b>
<<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:58:15 +0000, Piers Kittel wrote:
<br><br>>Hello all,<br>><br>>Mythfrontend is set to turn off my computer using the command "halt".<br>>Mythfrontend is run as an non-root user - in this case user "piers" - so<br>>when I try to exit MythTV, and I select "Yes, exit and shutdown" - it
<br>>jsut says "Command not found". Obviously this command isn't available<br>>to non-root users. So how do I enable the user "piers" to be able to<br>>shut down the computer without opening up too many obvious security holes?
<br><br>put a copy of the program in /home/piers or /home/mythtv as applicable and<br>chmod it so that user 'piers' or 'mythtv' can execute it.<br><br>If user mythtv "owns" mythfrontend, then only mythtv and root will be able
<br>to execute the shutdown.<br><br>Geoff<br><br>R. Geoffrey Newbury <a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a><br>Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600
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