[systemd-devel] systemctl reboot/halt with non-privilege user

[An Liu]

Hi,

> It really depends on the policykit setup.
>
it is, I'm sure even i'm not good at polkit (or even i didn't know polkit,
i still believe there is some config
control over this)
i'm saying of the default behavior after installation.

>
> e.g. if the user is in the wheel group, they may have additional
> privileges by virtue of that.
>
> On my systems (centos 8 here) policykit will prompt for the root password:
>

> [user at host ~]$ systemctl poweroff
>
> ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.login1.set-wall-message ====
>
> Authentication is required to set a wall message
>
> Authenticating as: root
>
> Password:
>
> while my systemctl halt prompt the 'same as system shutdowm' you mentioned
did you try systemctl reboot (if you didn't adjust polkit config from the
default one)

It's really strange to have a non-privileged user reboot access by default,
isn't.



AN
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