Not necessarily true.  Lots of people use remote KVM's :)  So just
because someone has access to the console does not mean they have
physical access to the server.

-matt

On 7/8/07, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 22:51 -0700, Robert - eLists wrote:
> Greetings
>
> On centos 5, if I ssh in as a regular non-superuser account and go to the
> sbin dir to issue a reboot command, it wont do it as says you must be
> superuser
>
> If you are on the console logged in as a non-superuser account and do the
> same thing, it will reboot.
>
> Is this a feature, or a bug?

If you're at the console you can usually just push the reset or power
button *anyways*, so it's a non-bug. I believe you can edit the
appropriate entries in /etc/pam.d if you really want to change this.

--
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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