From: German <gentgerman@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:58:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150321165842.b6c4a9ca7aa6d9e28b8f9d91@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150321203225.GF1082@ca.inter.net>
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
>
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2015-03-21 19:26 [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user? German
2015-03-21 19:34 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-03-21 19:35 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-03-21 22:38 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-21 22:52 ` Emanuele Rusconi
2015-03-21 23:03 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-21 19:39 ` German
2015-03-21 19:47 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-21 19:58 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2015-03-26 0:46 ` microcai
2015-03-29 11:55 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2015-03-29 12:33 ` Jorge Almeida
2015-03-29 12:44 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-21 20:01 ` German
2015-03-21 20:17 ` Jc García
2015-03-21 20:09 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-21 20:32 ` Philip Webb
2015-03-21 20:50 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-21 20:58 ` German [this message]
2015-03-21 22:20 ` Jc García
2015-03-22 10:30 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-03-22 11:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2015-03-22 11:27 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-03-22 15:58 ` Philip Webb
2015-03-22 19:13 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2015-03-22 20:12 ` Philip Webb
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2015-03-22 21:13 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-03-29 10:23 ` lee
2015-03-31 5:57 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-31 6:38 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-31 9:36 ` Tom H
2015-03-31 9:42 ` Emanuele Rusconi
2015-03-31 17:13 ` Tom H
2015-04-04 12:41 ` lee
2015-04-04 15:16 ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-07 20:10 ` lee
2015-04-07 20:24 ` lee
2015-04-04 22:36 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-07 19:21 ` lee
2015-04-07 20:43 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-07 21:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-08 21:47 ` lee
2015-04-14 21:07 ` Emanuele Rusconi
2015-04-14 22:06 ` lee
2015-04-14 23:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-09 15:13 ` lee
2015-04-04 22:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-05 7:27 ` Dale
2015-04-05 11:24 ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-05 15:13 ` Dale
2015-03-22 20:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Jc García
2015-03-23 9:46 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-03-23 10:12 ` 回复：Re: " Nicol TAO
2015-03-23 11:28 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-23 12:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2015-03-23 12:16 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-03-23 13:32 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2015-03-23 12:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Emanuele Rusconi
2015-03-29 10:43 ` lee
2015-03-29 23:20 ` Walter Dnes
2015-03-29 19:30 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-30 0:32 ` Walter Dnes
2015-03-30 0:52 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-30 8:09 ` Mick
2015-03-30 9:41 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-30 8:00 ` Mick
2015-04-04 12:47 ` lee
2015-03-21 22:51 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-22 6:32 ` German
2015-03-22 6:49 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-03-22 7:06 ` German
2015-03-22 7:11 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-03-22 7:22 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-03-22 7:19 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-22 7:30 ` German
2015-03-22 7:34 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-03-22 7:35 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-22 7:55 ` German
2015-03-22 7:47 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-22 7:57 ` German
2015-03-23 1:39 ` Walter Dnes
2015-03-22 7:31 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-22 7:35 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-03-22 7:55 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-22 7:56 ` German
2015-03-26 0:53 ` microcai
2015-03-26 15:36 ` Tom H
2015-03-22 7:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2015-03-26 1:46 ` [gentoo-user] " wabenbau
2015-03-26 16:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Hans
2015-03-26 16:28 ` Francisco Ares
2015-03-26 19:02 ` Emanuele Rusconi
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