Why are unprivileged users on a system console able to issue "systemctl reboot" and similar commands without authenticating?
Issue
- Any user logged on the console for a system can reboot the server without root privileges, using command:
# systemctl reboot -i
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- systemd
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