From c32b90dec78afe0db51ff0afa6448c01524105fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 16:17:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] systemctl: print a nice error message if an unprivileged user
 calls systemctl reboot -ff

---
 src/systemctl/systemctl.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
index e2550adb..cbe6848d 100644
--- a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
+++ b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
@@ -1788,6 +1788,11 @@ static int start_special(DBusConnection *bus, char **args) {
 
         a = verb_to_action(args[0]);
 
+        if (arg_force >= 2 && geteuid() != 0) {
+                log_error("Must be root.");
+                return -EPERM;
+        }
+
         if (arg_force >= 2 &&
             (a == ACTION_HALT ||
              a == ACTION_POWEROFF ||
-- 
2.39.5