v.910 Authenticate before Shut Down

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Apr 7 20:39:09 UTC 2010


On 04/07/2010 12:38 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 04/07/2010 02:30 AM, Willis Taylor wrote:
>>> Since my last update I am having to authenticate my attempt to shut down
>>> by entering my SU Password.  Has anyone else hit this and if so what's
>>> the cure?
>>>
>>
>> Generally that is an indication that another user is logged on. You
>> should be able to check using:
>>
>> $ users
> 
> Being curious about the info terminal commands provide, I did:
> 
> jfb at jfb-ubuntu64:~$ users
> jfb jfb
> 
> As the only user of this machine why do I show up twice?
> 
> Thanks,  Jim

Probably better to use 'who' or 'who -a'. Here is the info for both who
and 'users' (gives more info than the man files):

$ info coreutils 'users invocation'






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