From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-163056-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C02D5138CBE for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:17:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6C79E0984; Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f173.google.com (mail-we0-f173.google.com [74.125.82.173]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C9829E0968 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:17:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wegp1 with SMTP id p1so107107037weg.1 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=ZQ23hHAA0W39oqgA/GSSWoAfA4BPRp5Bw5Hqvd5lV6Y=; b=kzIX1zDJGA7yayIi596xlb9PGvBwvug82G8qaezeLvu7W0nVF+x3ICbDAYPHi3gr6g wXMa7DwkuduDOfySlT5OZxA6SOdkn//kOv3lp1gMZ9FKIC7bIrDu/iZMWJgWz0RiUynL p9aCWlm60Wo1soXzpPqGgQDldomN3BX4lclKNWqXvn7Pzx68QB2rGDAem06/yfxJvL2G RqPMBkXfeH2KLqFw1jJP728HoewV7/80tJ+RzmijYH0c+aNBtA7JGIQtb5O1h1wyaoST mQEHAi21+owV71rq1dMQb4u1TnHJwKGSp5jwGMebQxnBBVhIewIQh4er/LD4CkBFglvf PEGQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.47.201 with SMTP id f9mr168429741wjn.17.1426969040758; Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.28.2.4 with HTTP; Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:17:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150321160140.619aeab5cca1e9a0435ae22c@gmail.com> References: <20150321152656.a82a84b3e8a32c8b68554548@gmail.com> <CAJ1xhMUZZLJaubesvW+FW-kf5Fn60ez9X9Sh7vhe3wpt=PY1pw@mail.gmail.com> <20150321153934.01966ae8bd27daf7bcc47000@gmail.com> <CAGfcS_=CJypwK3zber8TcXXkGbPrjSAWkfcpMwbExMjEW8gwuQ@mail.gmail.com> <20150321160140.619aeab5cca1e9a0435ae22c@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 14:17:20 -0600 Message-ID: <CAGQH77cMh6nUJ2a7GeneQ3cUqThB55aWqbBttov_BtL8Ruv+=w@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user? From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jc_Garc=C3=ADa?= <jyo.garcia@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 71f49de1-74df-43fb-9ab2-793861b45106 X-Archives-Hash: e1c8ee03c6ffa0a98c70c3c087125273 2015-03-21 14:01 GMT-06:00 German <gentgerman@gmail.com>: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:47:16 -0400 > Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:39 PM, German <gentgerman@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > No, I am trying to shutdown from a console >> >> Well, the old answer would be that you need to use sudo to run it, as >> shutting down is a privileged operation. >> >> I suspect that the new answer is that with appropriate >> policykit/consolekit/etc settings you can probably allow somebody >> sitting at a physical console to shut down the system, or any >> logged-in user if you prefer. However, I haven't actually set that up >> myself. > > Well, I am the only one sitting at the console :) Are there any key combination which allows that? I can reboot even if I am a user with Ctrl+Alt+Delete >> Just use sudo to allow your user to shutdwon without password(suders(5) manpage is your friend), and put an alias in your bashrc: alias poweroff="sudo /sbin/poweroff"