On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 03:03 -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > I no longer have any non-systemd machines handy to verify this on, but > my memory is that I have *always* been able to use halt/poweroff/reboot > commands from the console without requiring sudo or entering a password, > and I've been using Debian since 2000ish, well before systemd was even a > gleam in some programmer's eye.
I'm running Jessie (with systemd running but booting with sysvinit) and trying to execute halt/poweroff/reboot/shutdown from a terminal without root privileges gives an error saying I must be superuser. Which has always been my experience in 10 years of using Debian. >From a desktop environment it's usually been possible to shut a machine down from a menu option, though at least on one release I ended up having to hack some policy config to allow that to work. -- Tixy
