Bug#830775: systemd: systemctl poweroff ask me twice for user and password.

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Mon Jul 11 13:59:00 BST 2016


Am 11.07.2016 um 14:50 schrieb Pavel Kosina:
> I would prefer if it even does not aks who i am. It should ask for
> password only. And my second wish is, that i would be able to poweroff
> even without password as I do in GUI/Gnome.

A user that is logged in via GNOME is a local user, so he has the
privilege to shutdown unauthenticated. If you want to allow the same for
remote users, you can configure that via polkit rules. That is not
something we want to ship as a default in Debian though.


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