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khalderon

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Registered: 2008-01-03

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Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

Tell me how to shutdown the computer. Reboot does only reboot (as a root), normal users what can do?

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Allan

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

As root you can "shutdown -h now". 

Alternatively, you can give you user permission to call shutdown using sudo.  I know you need to do that to use the shtdown dialog in XFCE - no idea about other desktops.

Last edited by Allan (2008-01-18 06:22:46)

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khalderon

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

Ok. What about reboot?

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Bob-Hur

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Registered: 2007-12-09

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

As root (or use sudo)

shutdown -r now

You may also be able to reboot as a regular user by using the "Windows Salute" of Ctrl-Alt-Del

khalderon

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

Ok, I wonder why a regular user cannot shut down. This is strange.

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Dheart

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Registered: 2006-10-26

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

I personally use

halt -p

for shutdown

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robertp

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From: Warszawa, Poland

Registered: 2007-09-11

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

Ok, I wonder why a regular user cannot shut down. This is strange.

To prevent remotely logged in users (via ssh, telnet) from shutting down system. This usually makes sense in systems with many user accounts (mostly servers).

khalderon

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

So, every time I am logged in as a normal user, I will have to log out and log in as a root just to shut down?

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Zuranox

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Registered: 2008-01-18

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

Try to add your user to the power group.

khalderon

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

I tried - no effect.

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Allan

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

Setup sudo for shutdown with nopasswd for your account.  Then alias shutdown as "sudo shutdown".  Should solve your problem.

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khalderon

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

How do I do that?

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PJ

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Re: Reveal to me the mystery of reboot/shutdown

I wonder if the search function might be broken...

Anyway, here is another thread that is about allowing users to shutdown/reboot, which by the way is solved.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42260

Some different methods described in the wiki. Just a note, method nr 1 will have to be updated each and every time you are installing a new package which contains halt, so I wouldn't use it.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/All … o_shutdown

Last edited by PJ (2008-01-18 10:50:20)