Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

[microcai <microcai@fedoraproject.org>]

on Sunday 22 March 2015 02:32:00，German wrote：
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:51:58 -0400
> 
> Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@outlook.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday, March 21, 2015 4:58:42 PM German wrote:
> > > On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:32:25 -0400
> > > 
> > > Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> > > > 150321 German wrote:
> > > > > If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down.
> > > > > When I run poweroff from user -- command not found.
> > > > > How to shut down the system from user ?
> > > > 
> > > > I'ld say "Don't" : it's contrary to the principles of Unix,
> > > > which separate the roles of sysadmin (root) from those of ordinary
> > > > users.
> > > > 
> > > > To shut down, I first exit Fluxbox via its menu,
> > > > then 'su' + root password, then alias 'down' = 'shutdown -h now'.
> > > > That observes the proper roles + ceremonies (smile).
> > > 
> > > Interesting. But as I said ealier, I can reboot the system when I am a
> > > user
> > 
> > by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the system, but can't shut down?
> > Strange
> > 
> > 
> > Either /sbin/poweroff or /usr/sbin/poweroff will do it from a local
> > session (if there's no other users logged in locally).
> 
> /sbin/poweroff says "Must be a superuser" :(

then it's high time for you to trash away sysvint and openrc, and try 
systemd!!! 

> > Like I said, /sbin is only on the search path for root by default on
> > gentoo.