Trying to reboot my VM via /sbin/reboot, which is a systemd version of reboot. It will spawn its authentication agent, and then the following behaviour occours:



$ /sbin/reboot
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.login1.reboot ===
Authentication is required for rebooting the system.
Authenticating as: root
Password: Failed to issue method call: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Must be root.
polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Conversation error
armin [ ~ ]$ -bash: mypassword: command not found



[17:11:12] <Black_Prince> so the trick is
[17:11:16] <Black_Prince> when the password prompt appears
[17:11:21] <Black_Prince> and you type in the password, but don't hit return
[17:11:24] <Black_Prince> it will timeout
[17:11:29] <Black_Prince> and return you to the shell prompt
[17:11:34] <Black_Prince> the shell prompt will have your password written
[17:11:44] <Black_Prince> but you won't see it nor anything else that you type after using the command above
[17:12:18] <Black_Prince> so if you hit return after your shell prompt gets back
[17:12:27] <Black_Prince> you'll see armin [ ~ ]$ -bash: mypassword: command not found
[17:12:29] <Black_Prince> dang
[17:13:03] <Black_Prince> for your info, I typed mypassword in the box just to reproduce it :3
[17:13:09] <Black_Prince> box = password prompt, doh 
[17:15:45] <Black_Prince> note, I was logged via ssh as a normal user
[17:15:56] <Black_Prince> that's why it didn't just reboot, since the session wasn't local