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I was trying to make shutdown without root user using visudo

I tried the following still it did not work for me

hawk ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown -h now

manugupt1
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Try this

hawk ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown

then use 

sudo shutdown -h now

to shut the system down

user9517
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  • yes.. I tried that but it did not work – manugupt1 Jun 13 '10 at 20:20
  • If hawk is your username and you are logged in as hawk it should work. What is the error message you get from sudo ? – user9517 Jun 13 '10 at 20:44
  • this would not work thanks for your help.. to make it work we should use sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now, this works I had kinda avoided it for long anutime I tried it – manugupt1 Jun 14 '10 at 08:43