Bug 18929
| Summary: | user may reboot the computer (server) | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Edmund Cheng <eymc> |
| Component: | sh-utils | Assignee: | bero |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-10-12 04:56:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Edmund Cheng
2000-10-12 04:56:34 UTC
This is a feature, not a bug, since physical access to the console (and keyboard, and usually power switch etc), permits rebooting through other means that are not (and cannot be) password protected. FWIW, typing "reboot" on console as non-root user asks for the user's password before rebooting. |