Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: microcai <microcai@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: German <gentgerman@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:51:01
Message-Id: 15188864.CJZzCyOIOu@gentoo
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user? by German
1 on Sunday 22 March 2015 02:32:00,German wrote:
2 > On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:51:58 -0400
3 >
4 > Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> wrote:
5 > > On Saturday, March 21, 2015 4:58:42 PM German wrote:
6 > > > On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:32:25 -0400
7 > > >
8 > > > Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
9 > > > > 150321 German wrote:
10 > > > > > If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down.
11 > > > > > When I run poweroff from user -- command not found.
12 > > > > > How to shut down the system from user ?
13 > > > >
14 > > > > I'ld say "Don't" : it's contrary to the principles of Unix,
15 > > > > which separate the roles of sysadmin (root) from those of ordinary
16 > > > > users.
17 > > > >
18 > > > > To shut down, I first exit Fluxbox via its menu,
19 > > > > then 'su' + root password, then alias 'down' = 'shutdown -h now'.
20 > > > > That observes the proper roles + ceremonies (smile).
21 > > >
22 > > > Interesting. But as I said ealier, I can reboot the system when I am a
23 > > > user
24 > >
25 > > by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the system, but can't shut down?
26 > > Strange
27 > >
28 > >
29 > > Either /sbin/poweroff or /usr/sbin/poweroff will do it from a local
30 > > session (if there's no other users logged in locally).
31 >
32 > /sbin/poweroff says "Must be a superuser" :(
33
34 then it's high time for you to trash away sysvint and openrc, and try
35 systemd!!!
36
37 > > Like I said, /sbin is only on the search path for root by default on
38 > > gentoo.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user? Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>