Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@×××.fi>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 07:22:30
Message-Id: 587DE4B9-E4E3-4F96-9909-13429E88D780@iki.fi
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user? by Alexander Kapshuk
1 > On Mar 22, 2015, at 9:11, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 >> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 9:06 AM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 08:49:54 +0200
5 >> Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@×××.fi> wrote:
6 >>
7 >> > > On Mar 22, 2015, at 8:32, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
8 >> > >
9 >> > >
10 >> > > /sbin/poweroff says "Must be a superuser" :(
11 >> >
12 >> > 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!
13 >>
14 >> Yes, I've read them. However no one explianed how this has to be accomplished with polkit and consolekit.
15
16 Read http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Polkit and all the links and prerequisites (consolekit and dbus) and polkit man page.
17
18 >> Also the use of sudo is another choice.
19 >>
20 >> Sudo is just a package?
21 >
22 > Yes, it is.
23 > qsearch sudo|sed 1q
24 > app-admin/sudo Allows users or groups to run commands as other users
25 >
26 >> >
27 >> > If you want every user to be able to shutdown just run this command:
28 >> >
29 >> > chmod 6755 /sbin/poweroff
30
31 --
32 -Matti