On 07/06/2016 11:06 AM, Markus Slopianka wrote:
Hi. Why does KShutdown run as root? It works just fine without it.
Have you checked boundary value conditions? As opposed to simply what is running on your system? I can imagine a shutdown that requires features and functions to be killed or other operations tat can only be carried out as root, which you are not running on your system.
Why does my Submit Request to fix that get declined with nothing but a "No"? https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/406887
Can anyone please enlighten me?
I'm not sure that some kind of password-less su to root for shutdown is a good thing under any conditions. It leads to bad habits. Imagine you're one a multi-user machine. Do you really want any user to be able to shut it down? This is not DOS, this is not Windows; I may "think" I'm the only user of my machine but WHOOPS! I have a web server running and someone else is using that or perhaps I have a print job running or a backup running, or I've exported part of my file system NFS or CIPS and that's mounted elsewhere ........ -- Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. --V. S. Naipaul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org