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<H1>[Mageia-dev] halt and shutdown users: Still needed?</H1>
<B>Charles A Edwards</B>
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<I>Sun Sep 9 02:42:11 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:49:57 +0100
Colin Guthrie wrote:
><i> This seems like a relic from many years ago and there is no need to
</I>><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.
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.
Charles
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