Member of group wheel, but still can't shutdown system?

[John Nielsen]

On Thursday 05 October 2006 07:25, albi wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:24:14 +0200
>
> thomas at hindsight.de wrote:
> > I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and listed myself as a member of the
> > wheel group during the add users portion of the installation.  For
> > some reason I have not put a finger on yet I cannot shutdown the
> > system "do not have permission" to effect the command.  Went back as
> > root on a later session and re-entered my name in /etc/group to the
> > wheel account to no avail, anybody got an idea as to where I need to
> > look?
>
> # ls -la /sbin/shutdown
> -r-sr-x---  1 root  operator  431524 May  2 16:40 /sbin/shutdown
>
> what about group operator ? but i personally would use sudo instead of
> group wheel etc.

I always assign myself to the operator group for just this reason; shutdown 
works fine without su or sudo.

JN