Can't shutdown as user

Hi,
I just followed the Wiki-Entry on how to make users able to shutdown/reboot the system, but I get the following error:
user /home/user $ sudo halt
sudo: sorry, you are not allowed to preserve the environment
My sudoers file:
Defaults:user timestamp_timeout=0
Defaults insults
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
user ALL=(ALL) ALL
user localhost=NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt
user localhost=NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot
On my old installation I had this working already, I really appreciate all help.

t4k1t wrote:
Lone_Wolf wrote:
This has worked fine for me in etc/sudoers file for ages :
%powerusers ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/poweroff
%powerusers ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot
Now when I type
sudo reboot
bash prompts me for the password.
Sorry if I'm insulting your intelligence t4k1t, but is you group named powerusers or power? If it's power then that should be %power on those lines.
It's usually the little mistakes that cause problems like this. I should know, I've made quite a few myself since coming to arch.
t4k1t wrote:Is it blocked by default from anything?
No. I was thinking of the problems you can get into with HAL stopping WMs from shutting down. Shouldn't be the cause, but mentioned it just in case.

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