[arch-general] systemctl reboot

[Neven Sajko]

Systemd, of course, *would* ask for a password, if polkit (PolicyKit)
weren't there.

On 13 September 2014 17:30, Mateus Rodrigues Costa <charles.costar at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 2014-09-13 11:13 GMT-03:00 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > as user I have the permission to run  systemctl reboot  _without_ sudo.
> >
> > $ groups
> > wheel games video audio optical storage power users vboxusers rocketmouse
> >
> > $ sudo cat /etc/sudoers | grep -v "#" | grep " "
> > root ALL=(ALL) ALL
> > rocketmouse ALL=(ALL) ALL
> >
> > 1. How can I disable it?
> >
> > 2. Since I'm the only user I could live with it, but I anyway want to be
> > ask for a password, before I run the command by a menu entry.
> >
> > Is anything speaking against running   gksudo systemctl reboot ?
> > Is anything speaking against running   gksudo -u some_user reboot ?
> >
> > I don't think so, but I want to ensure that I don't miss something.
> >
> > Again, I can execute it successfully without gksudo, I want to add
> > gksudo, because I want to be asked for the password.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ralf
> >
>
> I think this is because your current session is the only session running.
> In those situations systemctl power management commands don't ask for
> root/sudo password. Not sure how to disable though.
> If you had another session running (e.g. a VT) the commands would ask for
> root/sudo password.
>
> --
> Mateus Rodrigues Costa
>