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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 10:30:41 +0000
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On Saturday 21 March 2015 16:20:17 Jc Garc=EDa wrote:
> > Interesting. But as I said ealier, I can reboot the system when I a=
m a
> > user by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the system, but can't =
shut
> > down? Strange
> It's not strange,  `man 2 reboot`. It's a defined behavior.

I'm with German here. Being designed that way doesn't stop it being str=
ange.

Consider: I'm an ordinary user sitting at a terminal. I'm not allowed t=
o=20
halt the machine, but I am allowed to reboot it into perhaps some quite=
=20
other configuration. Or I can keep rebooting it over and again, effecti=
vely=20
preventing the machine from doing its job. How does that make sense?

--=20
Rgds
Peter.