Hi,

I found that I can reboot my RedHat 7.1 system as an ordinary user by
executing 'reboot' on the commandline. However, I can't shutdown/reboot my
system using 'shutdown -h now' or 'shutdown -r now' as an ordinary user. I
can only do this as root. However, the manpage for reboot (which is a
symlink to halt) says that 'shutdown -r now' is called when reboot is
executed. But halt is not setuid. So how come I can reboot as a normal user?

Thanks,
David

PS: Just trying to understand a bit more about Linux.



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