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Old 13th July 2014
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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
cravuhaw2C, ibara is right. Unless you have manually granted yourself additional access though visudo(8), you will be unable to execute shutdown(8).
During installation I did not create a user account. What I did was to give a password to the root account only.

Does the root account have permission to execute shutdown?

Suppose I did create a user account during installation and suppose I invoked the visudo command, how do I give myself additional access? I have read the man pages and FAQs and I am still unable to make sense of all the parameters stated therein. I don't have IT, computer or technical qualifications.

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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
Even use of su(1) will be restricted unless you are a member of the wheel group.
Thanks for the info. Could you tell me what those restrictions are on the use of su?

Gentle note to ocicat: I know you were trying to help me as much as you could and I appreciate it. However the hypertext links that you created for sudo(8), visudo(8), shutdown(8) and su(1) led me to a "Bad Request - You specified an invalid manpath."
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