On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, ergodic wrote:
Karel your philosophy is correct. I have seen this issue when my grandchildren complained that they could not turn of their box after it was was upgraded to F-17. That is why I filed Bug 843299.
Manny
While I understand the reasoning made by Karel, I have to say, that the
message preventing user to poweroff saved me a lot of times work I was
doing on their workstation remotely.
The bug you've submitted I understand is saying the /usr/bin/reboot should
ask or warn if someone else is logged in (!), else reboot immediately, but
/usr/sbin/reboot should reboot without asking, if you have sufficient
permissions, which is not the case when you invoke it as a user - that's
why system asks for authentication. I'd say this a bit different thing to
what we are talking here about.
Adam Pribyl
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Dne St 25. července 2012 11:46:51, Adam Williamson napsal(a):
I just tested on two F17 machines and running 'reboot' as a
regular user happily reboots the system even if root is logged
in at VT2, no warning or authentication required. That does
seem to make the 'protection' on the graphical reboot button a
bit pointless, but meh.
ahem, any such "protection" is pointless and in fact
contraproductive as long as the user is able to pull out the AC
cord (or the battery in case of laptops) (or use sysreq magic)
warning? - good idea, and it should be more sophisticated to be
helpful when asking others to save the work and logout (or
identifying what is running and who runs it)
authentication? - no, as it may prevent the user from shutting
down the system gracefully
K.
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Odchozi zprava neobsahuje viry, protoze nebyla odeslana z Windows.
Otestovano zdarma a legalne na OS Linux.
(Proc pouzivat Linux - http://proc.linux.cz/).
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