On Wed, 10.09.14 16:03, Michal Witanowski (m.witanow...@samsung.com) wrote:
> Hi, > > I was wondering if there is a possibility to call "systemctl poweroff" as > non-root user in this scenario: > > 1. I have no PolicyKit on my system, so I get access denied. > > 2. Calling with "-f" parameter also fails, with "Must be root" error. > > 3. I'd like to avoid using "sudo". > > Theoretically there is no other way, am I right? > > But what about CAP_SYS_BOOT? Does the systemctl shouldn't verify if this > capability is set and allow non-root user to shut down the system? When used with kdbus we actually do check for that client-side capability. THis is not available on dbus1 however, since we cannot determine the capability racefreely and thus safely. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
