Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd
On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 10:02:56AM +0000, Tixy wrote:
I'm running Jessie (with systemd running but booting with sysvinit) and
trying to execute halt/poweroff/reboot/shutdown from a terminal without
root privileges gives an error saying I must be superuser. Which has
always been my experience in 10 years of using Debian.
Be careful to double check what you are testing: in your situation it's
not clear whether /sbin/reboot is a symlink to systemctl (part of
systemd, so I would expect this not to work if you were not running
systemd as the init system) or a separate binary.
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