Dne Čt 26. července 2012 21:36:20, Adam Pribyl napsal(a): > 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. hm, now I'm a bit confused who talks about what :-) I say that warning about users logged in is useful *always* (both for ordinary user and for admin) but the warning should not prevent _any_ eligible user from powering off/rebooting, it should just provide a possibility to reconsider "eligible user" is a) admin b) local user if the user is not local then ask for admin privileges if the user is local then DO NOT ask for admin privileges (else the user will just cut the power supply which is worse than killing others' running processes) in addition, admin should be able to override the warning not having to explicitly answer "yes I'm sure I want reboot despite there are other users logged in" to allow to schedule the reboot/poweroff or script it, but this (not asking) should not be the default behaviour reboot and poweroff should act the same in this regard - if they don't, that's a clear bug K. -- Karel Volný QE BaseOs/Daemons Team Red Hat Czech, Brno tel. +420 532294274 (RH: +420 532294111 ext. 8262074) xmpp kavol@xxxxxxxxx :: "Never attribute to malice what can :: easily be explained by stupidity."
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