[systemd-devel] systemd v257 git: systemctl reboot and logged in users

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 3:29 PM Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
>
> On Do, 08.08.24 13:56, Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk at suse.com) wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > with current systemd v257 git, if I want to reboot  as user with "run0
> > systemctl reboot" or "sudo systemctl soft-reboot", this is now
> > prohibited  because I'm still logged in:
> >
> > "User kukuk is logged in on pts/0.
> >  Please retry operation after closing inhibitors and logging out other users."
> >
> > Now this are remote machines where you cannot login directly as root
> > for audit reasons. Nothing uncommon.
> > How should this work? I'm afraid admins will quickly use "systemctl
> > reboot -i" by default or make even an alias for this, which makes this
> > idea/change void.
> >
> > Is this really wanted? Or is this behavior a bug and a normal user
> > should be able to call systemctl reboot with run0/sudo without
> > blocking it like as logged in as root?
>
> Could you file an issue about this, please?

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/34086

Thorsten

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