SysVinit-2.85-5 and before The man page for halt states that the root password is needed to shutdown or reboot the system. As this is the case for users that are logged in locally a comment in that direction should be added to the man page. --- halt.8.000 2003-09-23 06:07:38.000000000 +0200 +++ halt.8 2004-02-04 23:59:57.000000000 +0100 @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ .\"{{{ Diagnostics .SH DIAGNOSTICS If you're not the superuser, you will get the message `must be superuser'. +Local users can \fBhalt\fP the system without supplying the root password. .\"}}} .\"{{{ Notes .SH NOTES
Created attachment 97475 [details] halt man page patch (same as in comment)
Created attachment 97478 [details] Improved version of the previous patch
--- halt.8.000 2003-09-23 06:07:38.000000000 +0200 +++ halt.8 2004-02-05 00:35:17.000000000 +0100 @@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ .\"{{{ Diagnostics .SH DIAGNOSTICS If you're not the superuser, you will get the message `must be superuser'. +Local users can \fBhalt\fP, \fBreboot\fP and \fBpoweroff\fP the system without +supplying the root password. .\"}}} .\"{{{ Notes .SH NOTES
Second patch obsoletes first one.
Modified version added in 2.86-1.
Package name is now sysvinit in Fedora.