[Mageia-dev] Deprecating pm-utils

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 17/10/12 14:02 did gyre and gimble:
> Olav Vitters <olav at ...> writes:
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:10:35AM +0000, David Walser wrote:
>>> So if you get rid of pm-utils, what's the new alternative to the pm-suspend
>>> command if you want to suspend from the command line?
>>
>> No clue about pm-utils, but guess you're after:
>> # systemctl suspend
>>
>> see systemctl --help for various alternatives
> 
> Thanks.  Can this command be run as a regular user?

Depends on policy kit policy, but it should basically respect the same
rules as other suspend operations triggered from GUIs.

e.g. if the system is multi-seat and has other sessions active on other
seats, then it will prompt you to enter the root password, but in a
typical case where you are the only active, logged in user, then yes, it
should work fine.

Obviously the overall system policy here is more complex than what I've
outlined above, but you get the picture.

Col


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