Thanks for this bug report! As it turns out, having world-execute does
not give access to performing the shutdown, just to running the command:
$ shutdown -r now
shutdown: Need to be root
** Visibility changed to: Public
** This bug is no longer flagged as a security issue
** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Kees Cook (kees)
Status: New => Invalid
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/sbin/shutdown world execute permissions
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244929
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