[Mageia-dev] halt and shutdown users: Still needed?

Sun Sep 9 11:24:52 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Charles A Edwards at 09/09/12 01:42 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:49:57 +0100
+> Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 
+>> This seems like a relic from many years ago and there is no need to
+>> include such users in this day and age. Should we kill them off?
+> 
+> They are carry-overs/carry-ons from sysvinit.
+> 
+> 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.
+> 
+> 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.
+
+I think you're talking about the halt and shutdown *commands* here, not
+the *users*?
+
+The users just have the commands as their shell and you need to give
+them a password and that lets people "login" as those users to then
+halt/shutdown the machine. As you say the commands themeselves serve
+that purpose these days so I think the user definitions can just go.
+
+Col
+
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