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Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges
- From: David Brodbeck <gull@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:07:11 -0800
- Message-id: <45E3843F.9060409@xxxxxxx>
Angus MacGyver wrote:
> For my home network (laptop excluded), and I think to be fair, a normal
> company working environment, which is where Novell is aiming their linux
> product at, where all users should be centrally managed, the users
> logged onto the console really need to have the rights to
> shutdown,hibernate,suspend, (un)mount drives etc..
>
Heh...that comment took me back to when I was in college. We had labs
with Sun workstations. Unfortunate users who put floppy disks into them
soon discovered they lacked the privileges to eject the disk again! No
manual eject button on a Sun floppy drive, either...
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> For my home network (laptop excluded), and I think to be fair, a normal
> company working environment, which is where Novell is aiming their linux
> product at, where all users should be centrally managed, the users
> logged onto the console really need to have the rights to
> shutdown,hibernate,suspend, (un)mount drives etc..
>
Heh...that comment took me back to when I was in college. We had labs
with Sun workstations. Unfortunate users who put floppy disks into them
soon discovered they lacked the privileges to eject the disk again! No
manual eject button on a Sun floppy drive, either...
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