Permission to shutdown now!

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How do I give permission to execute the command shutdown to the user ?

I am using OS Linux Mint 13.

linux bash mint

  • sudo does not solve your problem?

  • no, it asks for the root password!

  • Why don’t you add your user in sudoers?

  • I already added, but it doesn’t work, send an ex please!

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    I think this question is off-topic for Sopt, maybe a place to ask is http://unix.stackexchange.com or http://askubuntu.com (Mint is a Ubuntu "Fork")

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One of the alternatives is to edit the file /etc/sudoers and to include in this file the following line:

user host = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown

Where:

user = user you want to give permission to shutdown without asking for password

host = hostname (execute hostname command to know)

To edit the file /etc/sudoers use the tool visudo, see below:

sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers

A real example (my computer backup):

luiz storage = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown

Running the command:

sudo /sbin/shutdown -r now

The above command will give an immediate shutdown and reboot the computer. No password will be requested.

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