I sometimes need to reboot a server that I'm logged into. In this case, I got the wrong gnome-terminal tab by mistake and rebooted my laptop instead, losing all my current work, which was an extremely suboptimal outcome.
I checked rebooting from another user when my first user logged in, and it didn't let me do it - it told me the command to try, however, which did require authentication. (Rebooting from the system menu didn't work at all, it just silently failed, but that's another matter.) I agree typing reboot into a terminal is not something that desktop users typically do - in which case, why support it? Or at least why not make the user confirm it's what they actually want before rebooting? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748095 Title: Non-root user can reboot machine from the command line To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1748095/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
