From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 20:13:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4A237B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:13:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2902687B; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:13:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:13:47 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-X-Sender: To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] shutdown group In-Reply-To: <448zhl3a8p.fsf_-_@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Jul 2001, Lowell Gilbert wrote: :dscheidt@tumbolia.com (David Scheidt) writes: : :> And why you'd need to, given that shutdown has the -r and -h flags is :> another question. : :It's a question with possible legitimate answers, though. It's not as :if "shutdown -h" were the same thing as "halt"... : I can't come up with a single good reason why a non-root user should be allowed to use the halt(8) or reboot(8) commands. I can't come up with many for root using them, either. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message