Bug#819500: general: Debian 8.3 CLI reboot using "init 6" shows username & password in plain text.
Package: general
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* CLI command "shutdown -r now" USUALLY does not work, since systemd replaced
sysvinit in Debian 8 "jessie".
Posted problem on http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/used-to-
shutdown-reboot-from-cli-but-since-systemd-replaced-init-shutdown-cmnd-
broke-4175575779/ got advice to try commmand "init 6". When I try it, I USUALLY
arrive - eventually - at a console login that reports errors - but amongst the
confusing information are the username & password IN PLAIN TEXT! I also had a
single occurrence of my root password split over two lines also in plain text!
Basically the reboot & shutdown commands from the CLI are REALLY buggy!
Another respondent to my query on LQ.org suggested using: "systemctl reboot"
this resulted eventually in poweroff/shutdown.
The MOST annoying part of this bug is its variability: OCCASSIONALLY the
commands work ok! But USUALLY not! Also SOMETIMES on booting-up again after an
unwanted forced-shutdown, the machine powers off without warning USUALLY before
the graphical Login appears & ONCE after an apparently successful login?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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