-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David wrote:
>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? I can't find anything in the man page to support this, but I suspect it has to do with console ownership ... the theory being that if you have console access, you can reboot the machine without the OS' permission anyway. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPF1uAL9BpdPKTBGtEQKHxwCeMiIpzG/JdwSnvRqqY38F+O/0cegAoP7Z Dnf3RCkm4FMlAyO5/pG3fajo =ABPD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
