Password for shutdown -

Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Sun Jan 19 16:42:04 UTC 2014


On 19/01/14 11:18, g wrote:
>
> hi bob,
>
> On 01/19/2014 08:07 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?
>
> curious question, how is /sbin/shutdown shown for execute?
>
> ie;
>
>    $ ll /sbin/shutdown
>    -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 63352 Jun 20  2012 /sbin/shutdown*
>
>
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
[bobg at box10 ~]$ ll /sbin/shutdown
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Dec 18 12:01 /sbin/shutdown -> ../bin/systemctl

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