Andrei Thorp wrote:

Look into "sudo", that tends to be the standard way of elevating your privilages temprorarily.

-A"G"T

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:28 PM, 李业 wrote:

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You must be root when doing administrative job. Cannot cd into usb directory might because you are not in "storage" group. Better to read Beginner Guide first if you are quite new to linux.

Hope this helps.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:02 AM, arunix wrote:

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Hello All :-) i am posting again boz i m getting error due to i am (newbie) at linux.the problem is here i have a simple user john when i gave command for poweroff it shows like that [john@arch ~]$ poweroff poweroff: . Same Error Came when i access "cd, Dvd, usb" you must be super user how can i resolve this Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-poweroff-machine-tp22839974p22839974.html Sent from the arch general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

-- Best regards, Li Ye

Thnks Dear:-) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-poweroff-machine-tp22839974p22840893.html Sent from the arch general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

2009/4/6 Guus Snijders :

2009/4/2 李业 :

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On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:02 AM, arunix wrote: [ shutdown as user ]

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You must be root when doing administrative job. Cannot cd into usb directory might because you are not in "storage" group. Better to read Beginner Guide first if you are quite new to linux.

for the specific problem mentioned, you might also want to read: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Allow_users_to_shutdown

Never mind, i just noticed that it also mentions sudo... Sorry for posting too quick. mvg, Guus