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Topic: Shut down/Reboot require /etc/sudoers entry, Evil! Evil! Evil!

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Waldo

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Posted: Dec. 27 2003,00:49

I recently found out that the shutdown/reboot options in the Fluxbox menu require a sudoers entry for the user. Earlier in the session I had commented out those lines for security. Only by doing some browsing and discovering the menu script was I able to figure out what the problem was.

Would it be possible to come up with another way to do this so that I don't have to have the current user in the sudoers file? This is rather insecure, methinks. Thanks for any feedback!

John

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Posted: Dec. 27 2003,20:32

You can use su-to-root, and invoke the commands through a term window. You will have to type your root password then.

You may want to try adding a display manager, but you will have to do some hacking to get it to play nice with the Kdrive X servers.

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