Bug 18576
Summary: | RHL7.0 Any user can reboot or halt | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | mmv |
Component: | usermode | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 7.0 | CC: | leonard-rh-bugzilla |
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:47:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
mmv
2000-10-06 21:50:36 UTC
When the user is logged in remotely, are they also simultaneously logged in at the console? The access checking does not check which terminal the user is on, just that he or she is also logged in on the console. YES! When the user is JUST logged in remotely but not from the console, halt and reboot prompt for a password. It seems like it is an intended feature. The change from the last version (6.2 in which they prompted always for password) made me think it was such a big bug. Thanks. This (quite serious) bug is still present in Red Hat Linux - Limbo (beta 2) 7.3.93. Instead of a reboot or halting the system, the "halt" or "reboot" program should ask for the superuser password, when typed in by a regular user. ( I quote from the manpage of halt: "If you're not the superuser, you will get the message `must be superuser' " ) This bug can be closed "NOTABUG". This has been asked repeatedly. Since local users are able to pull the plug or push the power button there is no use to disallow them to shutdown the box cleanly from the command line. The man page might need fixing to reflect that the above is not true for local users due to the reasons I mentioned. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17882 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |