From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: boot fully updated system with build 1287. modify grub parameters to add "selinux=0" issue telinit 5 as root startup my usual suite of apps (Oracle 10g, seti@home) connected remotely via ssh. $ /sbin/shutdown -r now shutdown: you must be root to do that! [doug@lambda ~]$ /sbin/reboot reboot: must be superuser. $ reboot *** system reboots. *** man page for reboot says non-root user will get diagnostic message. # which reboot /usr/bin/reboot $ ls -li /usr/bin/reboot /sbin/reboot 4128951 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 28 06:22 /sbin/reboot -> halt 5903240 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 11 22:51 /usr/bin/reboot -> consolehelper Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.11-1.1287_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. connect as regular user 2. execute reboot 3. Additional info:
changed component from SysVinit to usermode as it is /usr/bin/reboot not /sbin/reboot that causes problem.
If you're logged in on the console (this includes X), this is expected behavior.