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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:34:59
Message-Id: CAJ1xhMUZZLJaubesvW+FW-kf5Fn60ez9X9Sh7vhe3wpt=PY1pw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user? by German
1 On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:26 PM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down, however when I run
4 > poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the system from
5 > user? Thanks
6 >
7 > --
8 > German <gentgerman@×××××.com>
9 >
10 >
11 poweroff(1) says:
12 If you're not the superuser, you will get the message `must be supe‐
13 ruser'.
14
15 Either run poweroff as the superuser, or if you're running Gnome, KDE,
16 XFCE, etc., you may use the shutdown option available in those desktop
17 environments.
18
19 Others might suggest other ways of doing it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user? Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user? German <gentgerman@×××××.com>