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<H1>[Mageia-dev] halt and shutdown users: Still needed?</H1>
<B>Sander Lepik</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] halt and shutdown users: Still needed?">sander.lepik at eesti.ee
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<I>Sun Sep 9 11:55:17 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>08.09.2012 19:49, Colin Guthrie kirjutas:
><i> Hi,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> So there exists two users (provided by default from the setup pkg)
</I>><i> called "halt" and "shutdown". These users just run the halt and shutdown
</I>><i> commands as their shell. This means su'ing or sudo'ing or setting a
</I>><i> password and logging in as them, will shut the machine down.
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</I>><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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</I>><i> Col
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</I>+1 on removing them. I didn't even know about them :)
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Sander
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