Re: Shutdown and reboot

[Øyvind Heggstad <mrelendig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:12:24 +1000
"joker-jar@xxxxxxxxx" <joker-jar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Please tell me the best way to allow non root user to use halt,
> reboot, shutdown e t.c. May be set group "power" to this binaries?
> 
> $ ls -l /sbin/halt
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15152 2010-10-02 13:26 /sbin/halt
> 
> (Not only for me but in distro). No?
halt:
dbus-send --system --print-reply\
--dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager\
org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop

reboot:
dbus-send --system --print-reply\
--dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager\
org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart

suspend:
dbus-send --system --print-reply\
--dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower\
org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

hibernate:
dbus-send --system --print-reply\
--dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower\
org.freedesktop.UPower.Hibernate

or use sudo.