From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 11 13: 9:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A1914C29 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:09:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA88497; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:09:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:09:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199909112009.QAA88497@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: adamw@holonet.net (Adam Wight) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: halt/shutdown permissions In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < 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