Bug 117388
| Summary: | Invoking shutdown under user account failed | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Andrew Martynov <andrewm> |
| Component: | rhl-gsg | Assignee: | John Ha <jha> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | John Ha <jha> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | adstrong |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Documentation |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-q-and-a-shutdown.html | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-08-03 03:28:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Chapter 13: Shutting Down s1-q-and-a-shutdown.html Documentation said: From the shell prompt: type shutdown -r now or shutdown -h now. The - r means "reboot" and the -h means "halt." You will be required to enter your password before these commands are executed After invoking under user account $/sbin/shutdown -h now following message appear "shutdown: must be root" This book is also available as RHEL AS 2.1 documentation and it should be corrected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): site online documentation How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL AS 2.1 as default Advanced Server option 2. switch to runlevel 5 3. login as user (not root) 4. open terminal (for example, xterm) 4. run "/sbin/shutdown -h now" Actual Results: error message "shutdown: must be root" appear Expected Results: System shutdown Additional info: