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

[Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@outlook.com>]

On Sunday, March 22, 2015 3:30:49 AM German wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 03:19:50 -0400
> Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday, March 22, 2015 3:06:59 AM German wrote:
> > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 08:49:54 +0200
> > > Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@iki.fi> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > On Mar 22, 2015, at 8:32, German <gentgerman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > /sbin/poweroff says "Must be a superuser" :(
> > > > 
> > > > Did you read any of the previous messages? They told you that you have 
to 
> > have consolekit and polkit installed and configured for this to work!
> > > 
> > > Yes, I've read them. However no one explianed how this has to be 
> > accomplished with polkit and consolekit.
> > 
> > You don't need those. It sounds like you somehow got both sysvinit and 
systemd 
> > installed. The message you're getting is from sysvinit. poweroff should be 
a 
> > symlink to systemctl. Try:
> > 
> > systemctl poweroff
> > 
> > You may need to unmerge sysvinit and anything else related to openrc and 
then 
> > re-emerge systemd. With systemd it should either shutdown or ask you for 
the 
> > root password (if you're not logged in locally or there's other users 
logged 
> 
> Thanks, I decide to go with sudo on this one. However when I try to run it, 
it says:
> "Username is not in the sudoers file." Where is this file located and how can 
I add the user to it? Thanks
> 
> > in).
> > 
> 
> 
> 

See man sudo. But the advice you're getting is for openrc (it will work until 
something else breaks), you need to remove all openrc components and install 
systemd properly.
-- 
Fernando Rodriguez