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15 jhutchins: those GUIs go thru the DE (kde, gnome etc), and the DEs talk to 'XDM' which runs as root, that's why regular user can use the shutdown command in general, unless the system is configured to allow a regular user to reboot the machine with his/her real own uid.

11 yeah, that's one of the cases I was thinking of.

10 greycat: There are, most GUIs allow a user to shutdown/reboot.

9 FTR: /sbin/shutdown is from systemd-sysv.

There are probably facilities for non-root users to be allowed to request a system shutdown/reboot.

8 I don't even think that's strictly accurate any more.

7 'This failed, that failed, and you are not root.'.

6 Actually, it would be great if it returned 'you must be root', but I don't remember which program actually does that.

5 Bug Tracking System for Debian packages, replaced-url.

1 They may never change it, but it's reasonable to ask.

0 It's reasonable to expect that systemd would reject the message, and the /sbin/shutdown client program would report an error.

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Clementine 1.4.0 RC1 (887) download the new version