[indiana-discuss] Indiana Shutdown Problem

[Aubrey.Li]

On Nov 2, 2007 10:17 PM, jan damborsky <Jan.Damborsky at sun.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > On 02/11/2007, Qingye Jiang (John) <John.Jiang at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> >> When I try to shutdown Indiana as a regular user, there is a warning
> >> saying that I don't have the privilege to shutdown my machine. At the
> >> same time I can't login to Gnome with root, so the only option is to su
> >> from a regular user, then use the shutdown or poweroff command.
> >>
> >> Is this behavior by design? It seems to be somewhat troublesome.
> >>
> >
> > You can't login as root because root is a role.
> >
> > You can however login as a normal user, then "su" to root, and then
> > perform and "init 5" or use the "shutdown" command to shutdown.
> >
>
If I recall correctly, "su" need password, what is it?

Thanks,
-Aubrey
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