Password for shutdown -

Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Sun Jan 19 16:49:38 UTC 2014


On 19/01/14 11:39, Greg Woods wrote:
>> Fedora 20 requires a password to shutdown.
> My F19 also does this, but only if I have logged in on one of the
> consoles (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F2) as well as through the GUI. Then I get some
> verbiage about password being required when other users are logged in.
> But it's my password rather than root's (presumably this because my
> account is set up as an admin).
>
> --Greg
No, in my case it happens without logging in to another console. I only 
use the one password to avoid confusion, I'm already in cerebral 
overload with various passwords and this is one area where I can control 
things.

Bob

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