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On Sunday 22 March 2015 14:36:36 Jc García wrote: |
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> 2015-03-22 4:30 GMT-06:00 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>: |
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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 |
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> >> > a |
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> >> > user by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the system, but can't |
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> >> > shut |
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> >> > down? Strange |
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> >> |
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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 |
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> > strange. |
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> I see it as a last resource available for rebooting under any |
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> circumstances( Similar to what you can do with Sysrq). |
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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, |
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> > effectively preventing the machine from doing its job. How does that |
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> > make sense? |
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> It doesn't and that's why it's configurable, if you are in a high |
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> security requiring environment, you disable it. |
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The consensus seems to be that there's no point in trying to prevent a user |
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from rebooting the machine, and I'm happy to go along with that. |
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The remaining question is: why is the user not allowed to halt it? |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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