You can run "poweroff" as a normal user (i.e. not root) and it will automatically run "shutdown -h"; "reboot" will work as normal user also. -Jason On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Brian Winter wrote: > Once you get to the command line: > > shutdown -h now (turns it off) > shutdown -r now (reboots it) > > btw... these have to be executed while logged in as root >