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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?</H1>
<B>Pascal Terjan</B>
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<I>Sat Sep 8 19:12:39 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> wrote:
><i> We can now replace this symlink with a direct link to systemctl and
</I>><i> policy kit should take care of things. Seems odd that shutdown was
</I>><i> affected by msec, but halt, reboot and poweroff were not. Seems kinda
</I>><i> pointless and a mis-feature really.
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I would not say pointless, allowing non root user to shutdown the
machine makes sense to be part of the security policy of the machine
><i> As it never really worked, I'll kill it from msec and just ship it
</I>><i> statically. If this msec feature is needed/desirable then it'll need to
</I>><i> be re-implemented as an automatic edit of the policykit policy.
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Well a lot of what msec does should be updated for current technologies
drakx should also be updated to require authorization for actions
instead of running as root
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