possible evdev issue?

shmuel siegel fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Sat Nov 8 18:04:53 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 18:18 +1100, David Timms wrote:
>   
>> Tom Horsley wrote:
>>     
>>> typing "sudo reboot" in a terminal, then I find my
>>>       
>> On my machine I don't need the sudo bit; reboot from my normal user just 
>> works. Perhaps the sudo part makes it nastier ?
>>     
>
> Does it ask for the root password? If so, it's the same as using sudo.
> If not, something is seriously broken in your system.
>
> poc
>
>   
Well I also never type sudo for reboot. Also the system menu lets me 
reboot without asking for a password. I thought that this was a feature 
of Fedora, the master console can issue a reboot command.




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