Laurent Bigonville writes: > I'm reopening this issue and reassigning it dpkg package, that would > at least avoid non privileged users to restart the machine when there > is an update happening.
For what it's worth apt supports this already when apt invokes dpkg:
```C++
if (_config->FindB("DPkg::Inhibit-Shutdown", true))
Fd = Inhibit("shutdown", "APT", "APT is installing or removing
packages", "block");
```
Ansgar
