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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 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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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, effectively |
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> preventing the machine from doing its job. How does that 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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