On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 22:40:25 -0800, Bob Savage wrote:
> I'm very new to this and having a raft of problems. First, I managed to set
> up a second account that can 'su' to root permissions -- sorta. I can
> switch (or whatever that does), but then I cannot (for example, shutdown
> (e.g. 'halt'); I need to login as root to do that, at which point I get
> this annoying message that I shouldn't be logging in as root. So my first
> question is, is it that bad to login as root if I am just doing it to
> shutdown the computer?

What do you mean by cannot halt? Does halt refuse to halt the machine, or
is the halt command command not found, e.g. because you don't have /sbin
in your PATH when su'ing? Have you tried /sbin/halt ?

- Erik