(Actually the highest is "paranoid") That would explain it. I installed at a higher security setting, found I couldn't read the documentation as a normal user and downgraded to Normal. I shall look at the groups and add them where appropriate. Thanks for your help.
There is a bug here, of course. It is pointless to allow a user to halt a machine and not allow them to turn it off. If I should not have been allowed to shutdown then this is a Denial of Service security loophole. If the "Normal" security setting should allow me to shutdown then it is a bug in implementing that. -- Richard Urwin, Private "No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Ken Walker Sent: 29 October 2002 11:56 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] A Different shutdown problem Well, there are several security level settings that can be changed in Mandrake Control Panel. At the highest setting of ( wait for it.... 'High') the system becomes a super secure server. Such that, it turns off all net protocols and other services in the background and you have to enable all by hand in the conf files. In playing with this, cos playing is the only way to find out what it does. If you set it to 'High'. It disables what it thinks are unsecured server functions. If you then set it back to 'Normal', all those functions are still disabled and you have to either go back into Mandrake control panel and enable them again and set them for 'on boot'. Or do it all manually in the conf files. At the 'High' setting, only root can shutdown or reboot. So, as i understand it, to shut down or reboot with a security setting of High, only root has that privilege, unless you assign a user to the appropriate group. Me still learning, so please correct me if i'm wrong. :o) Mr Smiley -----Original Message----- From: Richard Urwin [mailto:RUrwin@;SRHSYSTEMS.com] Sent: 29 October 2002 11:20 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] A Different shutdown problem > The only thing i could connect it with was who has rights to shut down / > reboot the machine. But that's as far as i got :( How do you mean? Thinking back, the time it worked I was logged into X11/KDE as root. I never have been since. -- Richard Urwin, Private "No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato." ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________
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