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I have noticed that after some update, the Pi now requires a password for rebooting or shutting down. I have a Pi 3 and I am accessing my Pi via VNC and doing the shutdown/reboot from the GUI (not the command line), if that makes any difference.

Is there any setting I can update to disable this password requirement for reboot/shutdown?

Update

After tlhIngan's post, I did some more experimenting and it is as if the GUI for shutting down the computer is no longer prefixing shutdown or reboot with sudo. Next, I opened up a terminal and entered reboot (no sudo and I get the same password dialog). I may need to file a bug report for this...

Pi Reboot Password

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Raspbian comes configured by default to not require passwords for sudo commands from user pi. If you are using a different user account or if this no-password requirement has been changed by an update, here's how to change it back.

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