Password for shutdown -

[doug]

On 01/19/2014 09:16 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> On 01/19/2014 09:07 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>>
>> Fedora 20 requires a password to shutdown. This is something new, 
>> I've used Redhat and/or Fedora Linux for a long time and never had 
>> this requirement. I am the sole user of this computer and see it as 
>> an annoyance, more so when rebooting than for shutting down at night.
>>
>> How do I fix this?
>>
>> Bob
>>
> Hmm,.......do you mean in the GUI?...or from the Terminal? because I 
> have shut-down my F20 machine and never had to type anything. (I've 
> never tried it from the Terminal though.....so it might actually be 
> that you need to type on in order to shut down. 
When you're using CLI, the command shutdown -h now or shutdown -r now 
will ask for your password.

--doug

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