manually?
No, you are correct that it is the right mechanism.
Allowing unprivileged shutdown is a dangerous operation and should
only be done is very specific circumstances (i.e. when a normal user
has complete seat and console access), so it's not the default and the
mechanism is fairly
I have been using simple privilege escalation to poweroff the machine,
but looking through the source code for s6-linux-init-shutdownd and
friends, it appears the only constraint on interacting with the daemon
is the permissions on run-image/service/s6-linux-init-shutdownd/fifo.
The default