On Saturday, March 21, 2015 4:58:42 PM German wrote: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:32:25 -0400 > Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > > > 150321 German wrote: > > > If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down. > > > When I run poweroff from user -- command not found. > > > How to shut down the system from user ? > > > > I'ld say "Don't" : it's contrary to the principles of Unix, > > which separate the roles of sysadmin (root) from those of ordinary users. > > > > To shut down, I first exit Fluxbox via its menu, > > then 'su' + root password, then alias 'down' = 'shutdown -h now'. > > That observes the proper roles + ceremonies (smile). > > Interesting. But as I said ealier, I can reboot the system when I am a user by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the system, but can't shut down? Strange > >
Either /sbin/poweroff or /usr/sbin/poweroff will do it from a local session (if there's no other users logged in locally). Like I said, /sbin is only on the search path for root by default on gentoo. -- Fernando Rodriguez
