On Thursday 10 October 2013, AP wrote:
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:39 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
I would definitely see about what really are polkit, systemctl, initrd, symlink, shell variables, etc..(linux basics).
But reboot permission has more to do with where you sit than who you are. Anyone at the console has reboot permission, which sort of makes sense since the power switch is just as easy to reach as the keyboard.
Yes I guess this is good that reboot is more to do with "where you sit" rather than anything else and I solely put this the reason why even the command like 'reboot' is in /sbin though even when if it were not in that, it won't break the system except to restart! However, it might be due to the olden days called backward compatibility like they call it.
What kind of logic is this? How does this matter where I sit? It's also easy to crash the hard disk as non-root using a hammer. So we could also make all files writable for users sitting at console? I guess that most people who wants to reboot machines have also the root password. So they would not need this permission for their user accounts. Giving all non-administrators the reboot permission per default is wrong. If root wants to give them reboot permission then he could do it via sudoers. This console/remote user magic is IMO useless. cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org