Mustafa Qasim wrote:
Dears lets consider some child at your home on someone else who didn't
have user account on ur system or on that particular OS accidentally
turn on the computer or boots into the OS where he doesn't hold any
account to login. Now how he can safely reboot your machine without
logging in. Here the Shutdown & Restart buttons provides the facility to
safely shutdown or restart ur OS.
I tend to agree. Similarly, it seems that a normal user can "reboot"
from the command line, but not "poweroff". I would have thought reboot
and poweroff would be root-only.
Obviously this decision has been made for some reason but I can't quite
see it at the moment.
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