Bug 1047153 - request no root privilege on shutdown command
Summary: request no root privilege on shutdown command
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: systemd
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-29 14:18 UTC by ryan.cubicle
Modified: 2013-12-30 16:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-12-30 16:40:50 UTC
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Description ryan.cubicle 2013-12-29 14:18:20 UTC
Description of problem:
I have a non administrative account for daily use.
the KDE request a password on shutdown. 
However, using bash, issuing "shutdown -P now" almost always request no password and immediately shutdown the system.
in very few ocassion, bash will complain no command found, and put sudo/su -c in front and give password will solve the problem.

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1. start terminal
2. issue "shutdown -P now"
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Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2013-12-29 20:14:31 UTC
Bash/shell has nothing to do with privileges to run some application. Shutdown utility is from systemd package. No command found probably means you don't have /usr/sbin in your path - therefore bash can't find the utility.

Comment 2 ryan.cubicle 2013-12-30 14:56:33 UTC
I did not complained command not found error, but why a non administrative user can almost always shutdown the system without root password

Comment 3 Ondrej Vasik 2013-12-30 16:09:22 UTC
Yes, I understand your complaint - anyway, I doubt shell is involved in that - it could be either sudoers setup ( http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_allow_non-super_users_to_shutdown_computer_in_Linux ) or some issue (probably in the systemd package itself) doing this by default.

Comment 4 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2013-12-30 16:40:50 UTC
shutdown is in /usr/sbin/. /usr/sbin is in path by default. So you'll get the "command not found" error only if $PATH is modified from the default.

shutdown is allowed for the logged-in user on the physical seat. It is assumed that that person has physical access and can press the button anyway. This can be changed by customizing the policykit rules.


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