Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

[Alan Shutko]

Mario Torre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> What is security? Why there were 3 release of the usermode package, as they 
> allowed a normal user to do "shutdown -h now", and now they are fixed, but 
> there is the ability to shutdown the system anyway with poeroff or 
> CTRL-ALT-DEL?

Because poweroff and C-A-DEL are customizable.  The default is to
allow it, but it can be changed.  Read the consolehelper manpage.

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