Running /sbin/shutdown -h 0 as a non-root user proceeds system to shutdown sequence resulting in power off. $ rpm -qf $(type -p shutdown) upstart-0.6.5-5.fc13.x86_64 This is undesired, insecure, abusive and against-all-customs behavior. Expected result is error message about refused attempt to shutdown by non-superuser. Current default configuration is really one-user system centric and overviews other use cases. I'd like to see more explicit configuration instead of such an Ubuntu style. E.g. adding users to supplementary `power' group.
I'm not able to reproduce it. /sbin/shutdown needs root privileges. [test@f13 ~]$ rpm -q upstart upstart-0.6.5-5.fc13.x86_64 [test@f13 ~]$ rpm -qV upstart [test@f13 ~]$ ls -l /sbin/shutdown -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 57920 May 4 22:31 /sbin/shutdown [test@f13 ~]$ /sbin/shutdown -h 0 shutdown: Need to be root I've tried it on serial console, virtual terminal, X terminal. Please provide more information or reproducer. Otherwise it will be close as NOTABUG.
Some bug in reality probably. Two of us have been able to reproduce it once a time, but not anymore. Feel free to close this report.