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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] halt and shutdown users: Still needed?</H1>
+ <B>Charles A Edwards</B>
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+<PRE>On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:49:57 +0100
+Colin Guthrie wrote:
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+&gt;<i> This seems like a relic from many years ago and there is no need to
+</I>&gt;<i> include such users in this day and age. Should we kill them off?
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+They are carry-overs/carry-ons from sysvinit.
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+Personally, since I both boot to and reboot/shut down from init3,
+when I actually wish to shutdown the system I use the shutdown command.
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+And would not keeping both shutdown and halt be useful for system
+administer, and on any multi user systems where user Are Not
+wanted/allowed to shutdown/halt the system.
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+ Charles
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