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On Saturday 21 March 2015 16:20:17 Jc García wrote: |
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> > Interesting. But as I said ealier, I can reboot the system when I am a |
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> > user by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the system, but can't shut |
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> > down? Strange |
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> It's not strange, `man 2 reboot`. It's a defined behavior. |
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I'm with German here. Being designed that way doesn't stop it being strange. |
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Consider: I'm an ordinary user sitting at a terminal. I'm not allowed to |
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halt the machine, but I am allowed to reboot it into perhaps some quite |
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other configuration. Or I can keep rebooting it over and again, effectively |
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preventing the machine from doing its job. How does that make sense? |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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