https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856773 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856773#c7 --- Comment #7 from Carlos Robinson <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> 2013-12-28 12:57:35 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6)
(In reply to comment #5)
please run
loginctl list-sessions
if there are multiple users at seat0 this privilege is meant to avoid users killing other users sessions.
Carlos already said that that is the case and was asking about the inconsistency between shutdown/reboot being allowed from the active session while suspend/hibernate requires admin authentication:
Correct, that's the point. I have a root session on tty1, which is also me, of course. IMO, there is no point in asking for root's password to hibernate and not to power off. Besides, the user can pull the cable and batteries. It is also very inconvenient not to be able to hibernate if the machine is a laptop, or it is an emergency like low battery power (laptops and desktops on UPS). The dangerous operation is halt, not hibernate. Hibernate preserves processes. This situation is similar to users not being able to setup printers, as Mr Linus pointed out some time ago. At worst, this should be easily configurable in YaST, so that we have an easy choice to impose strict policies or not. Suggest "strict, local user only, relaxed". Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.