On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 09:37:25AM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 03:03:44AM -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. /sbin/shutdown may have also been > > freely available at the console, but I don't remember that one clearly, > > since I didn't use it all that often once I discovered the others. > > > I just did a fresh install of wheezy (7.11) with all defaults. Here is > what happened: > > testuser@debian:~$ cat /etc/debian_version > 7.11 > testuser@debian:~$ /sbin/reboot > reboot: must be superuser. > testuser@debian:~$ ls -l /sbin/reboot > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 14 2013 /sbin/reboot -> halt > testuser@debian:~$ ls -l /sbin/halt > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15184 Jul 14 2013 /sbin/halt > > The situation is basically the same for /sbin/shutdown.
Well, then. I stand corrected. Thanks for reminding me of what I'd forgotten! -- Dave Sherohman