Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown through systemctl as a normal user

[lukash]

On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 20:00 +0100, wabenbau@×××××.com wrote:
> lukash <lukkash@×××××.cz> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm reading on the internet that systemctl poweroff should work for
> > normal user if he is the only one logged in, he is logged in
> > locally
> > and his session is active. I seem to be meeting these conditions:
> >
> > # loginctl
> >    SESSION        UID USER             SEAT
> >          2       1000 lukash           seat0
> >
> > $ loginctl show-session 2
> > Id=2
> > User=1000
> > Name=lu
> > Timestamp=Sat 2016-01-16 17:27:30 CET
> > TimestampMonotonic=9614418
> > VTNr=7
> > Seat=seat0
> > Display=:0
> > Remote=no
> > Service=lightdm
> > Desktop=awesome
> > Scope=session-2.scope
> > Leader=529
> > Audit=2
> > Type=x11
> > Class=user
> > Active=yes
> > State=active
> > IdleHint=no
> > IdleSinceHint=0
> > IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0
> >
> > But invoking the command gives me:
> >
> > $ systemctl poweroff
> > Failed to set wall message, ignoring: Access denied
> > Failed to power off system via logind: Access denied
> > Failed to start poweroff.target: Access denied
> >
> > How is this supposed to work on Gentoo?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Lukas
>
> IIRC "CONFIG_AUDIT" and "CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL" must be set
> in the kernel configuration. But as I don't use this method I cannot
> say this for sure.

Thanks. But I've got those in my kernel already...

> --
> Regards
> wabe
>