Shutting down as user

Rem P Roberti remegius at comcast.net
Mon Nov 13 18:14:17 UTC 2006


> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
>   
>> Hi everyone.  I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to 
>> shutdown as user.  I get a "permission denied" error message.  I know 
>> that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have 
>> that problem on my desktop, but I'm pretty new to all of this and would 
>> appreciate a heads up on how to shut down as user.  Thanks.
>>     
>
> Add yourself to the "operator" group. Just edit /etc/group.
>
>   
Bingo!

Rem


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