On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > Side note: historically, people have always wanted to be able to reboot or > shutdown the system they were sitting in front of. This led to a lot of > really horrible solutions, like a bunch of setuid helper programs and > one-off site specific hacks. Having this functionality standardized in one > place is a net win for security, especially since there's also now a single > standarized way to change the privileges. > I don't necessarily disagree that having it centralized is a win. I do, however, think that it should have earned a mention in the release notes.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
