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