RHEL 7 systemd: How to prevent root from rebooting until a prescribed action is taken
Issue
- We don't want root to be able to casually reboot or poweroff the system
Instead, the root user must be required to run a specific command to allow reboots
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- systemd
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