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2015-03-21 14:01 GMT-06:00 German <gentgerman@×××××.com>: |
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> On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:47:16 -0400 |
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> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:39 PM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > |
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>> > No, I am trying to shutdown from a console |
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>> Well, the old answer would be that you need to use sudo to run it, as |
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>> shutting down is a privileged operation. |
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>> I suspect that the new answer is that with appropriate |
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>> policykit/consolekit/etc settings you can probably allow somebody |
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>> sitting at a physical console to shut down the system, or any |
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>> logged-in user if you prefer. However, I haven't actually set that up |
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>> myself. |
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> 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 |
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Just use sudo to allow your user to shutdwon without |
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password(suders(5) manpage is your friend), and put an alias in your |
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bashrc: |
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alias poweroff="sudo /sbin/poweroff" |
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