Password for shutdown -

[Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA]

On 19/01/14 12:49, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:42:59 -0600
> g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>
>> another thought, are you trying to run 'shutdown' from a terminal
>> or is it within xfce?
>>
>> if while in xfce, could be way xfce is working.
>>
> It is a known random problem, not everyone will get it.
> Been there done that. Also on Xfce.
>
> ___
> Regards,
> Frank
> www.frankly3d.com
>
And still after adding:

[root at box10 bobg]# ll /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/00-no-reboot-password.rules 
# or similar nam
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 340 Jan 19 12:44 
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/00-no-reboot-password.rules

I believe the permissions are ok too? It only needs to be read?

Bob



[bobg at box10 ~]$ shutdown now -h
Failed to issue method call: Access denied

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