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ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 272

poweroff without root?

I want to use poweroff command from my user. How can I do that?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: poweroff without root?

Read about sudo.

ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 272

Re: poweroff without root?

Mmm I know about sudo, but I do not like sudo.
Can I do this in other way? Without sudo and without root?

havli

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2005-04-28

Posts: 7

Re: poweroff without root?

There are more possibilities:
1) change file permissions for the halt command (as root)

chmod +s /sbin/halt

2) using sudo -> add to /etc/sudoers with visudo (as root)

user hostname = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown -h now

After that you can as user shutdown with

sudo shutdown -h now

smoon

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Registered: 2005-08-22

Posts: 468

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Re: poweroff without root?

What about pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del? Just modify your inittab to execute `shutdown -h now' (or something like that) on pressing it:

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -h now