Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:09:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: adamw@holonet.net (Adam Wight) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: halt/shutdown permissions Message-ID: <199909112009.QAA88497@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <v02110102b4005ffc67f3@DialupEudora> References: <v02110102b4005ffc67f3@DialupEudora>
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<<On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:40:33 -0800, adamw@holonet.net (Adam Wight) said: > Isn't it inconsistent behavior that a non-root user can reboot or shutdown > the machine with 'shutdown', yet only root can use 'halt' and 'reboot'? No, not at all. Operators can shut the machine down gracefully, but only wheels can shut the machine down ungracefully. Makes perfect sense to me. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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