Bug 58081

Summary:	RFE: provide functionality similar to molly guard
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Miroslav Suchy <miroslav>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Miroslav Suchy 2012-12-10 13:19:16 UTC

In Debian exists script:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/molly-guard
which - if reboot/shutdown is executed interactively - will ask you for hostname of machine which you think you are going to reboot/halt. Because sometimes it happens that you are rebooting different machine, than you think.

Molly-guard provides wrapper for shutdown, reboot, halt and poweroff and put them in /sbin, which is executed before normal "shutdown", which reside in /usr/sbin, which is in $PATH later.

Such hack is no more possible since migration to /usr/bin.

It would be if you can provide some option in /etc/systemd/system.conf (which would be by default to off), which when enabled will mimic behaviour of molly-guard.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2013-01-14 23:20:14 UTC

Debian supports diverting package contents, maybe that's a possible solution?

I am not convinced that this is really something to support upstream in systemd.

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2014-06-25 09:43:49 UTC

Let's close this, I really don't think this should be in systemd uptsream. Sorry.

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