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

+ Sander Lepik + sander.lepik at eesti.ee +
+ Sun Sep 9 11:55:17 CEST 2012 +

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08.09.2012 19:49, Colin Guthrie kirjutas:
+> Hi,
+>
+> So there exists two users (provided by default from the setup pkg)
+> called "halt" and "shutdown". These users just run the halt and shutdown
+> commands as their shell. This means su'ing or sudo'ing or setting a
+> password and logging in as them, will shut the machine down.
+>
+> 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?
+>
+> Col
+>
++1 on removing them. I didn't even know about them :)
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+Sander
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