Fedora 20 shutdown

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 04/28/2014 12:49 AM, Roger wrote:
> I have just Fedup'd Fedora 19 to F20 on a Dell 1520 laptop and it 
> works well, took about 4 hours to complete still has the same php 
> error message about /usr/lib64/pdo-mysql.so but all works well.
>
> There seems to be no way to shut own the system other than going to a 
> terminal and entering shutdown as root.
> I vaguely remember other Fedora versions had the same thing and we had 
> to install some app to provide the shut down menu.
> What is that has to be installed to get a shut down in Fedora 20 
> please? Why would a shut down or reboot menu be missing? Some folks do 
> still switch off for the night or while they are away. Puzzling.

poweroff works as a user.  You don't have to su to poweroff or reboot.  
At least I don't.

shutdown DOES see to require root priv.