Bug 6839

Summary: Default kdm configuration allows anyone to halt/reboot the system
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Chris Siebenmann <cks-rhbugzilla>
Component: kdebaseAssignee: Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description Chris Siebenmann 1999-11-08 23:23:10 UTC 
The default kdm configuration allows anyone at the system
console to halt or reboot the machine without having to
give any sort of password. Ironically, once one has logged
in one needs to give a password to do this.

 I think that this is a mistake; the setup should require
you to give the root password for the machine in order to
halt or reboot it by default, or something of that order.
Comment 1 Preston Brown 1999-11-15 20:04:59 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6838 ***