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I'm not the administrator, so I'm not in the sudo list. How can I shut down the computer from command line without sudo? As I can shut down the computer from GUI, I must be able to get the privilege from somewhere... Thanks.

dlz
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The privilege to shut down or restart without root is managed by ConsoleKit.

While the mechanism for how this works is changing as a result of systemd and logind, sending the following ConsoleKit message should still work to shut down without root:

/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop
thomasrutter
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