Re: systemd v257 git: systemctl reboot and logged in users

[Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Do, 08.08.24 13:56, Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@xxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> with current systemd v257 git, if I want to reboot  as user with "run0
> systemctl reboot" or "sudo systemctl soft-reboot", this is now
> prohibited  because I'm still logged in:
>
> "User kukuk is logged in on pts/0.
>  Please retry operation after closing inhibitors and logging out other users."
>
> Now this are remote machines where you cannot login directly as root
> for audit reasons. Nothing uncommon.
> How should this work? I'm afraid admins will quickly use "systemctl
> reboot -i" by default or make even an alias for this, which makes this
> idea/change void.
>
> Is this really wanted? Or is this behavior a bug and a normal user
> should be able to call systemctl reboot with run0/sudo without
> blocking it like as logged in as root?

Could you file an issue about this, please?

Lennart

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