zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-September/018571.html


1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
 <HEAD>
   <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?
   </TITLE>
   <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" >
   <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Anyone%20know%20where%20/usr/bin/shutdown%20comes%20from%3F&In-Reply-To=%3C504B82CE.1040702%40colin.guthr.ie%3E">
   <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">
   <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
   <LINK REL="Previous"  HREF="018570.html">
   <LINK REL="Next"  HREF="018594.html">
 </HEAD>
 <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
    <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Anyone%20know%20where%20/usr/bin/shutdown%20comes%20from%3F&In-Reply-To=%3C504B82CE.1040702%40colin.guthr.ie%3E"
       TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?">mageia at colin.guthr.ie
       </A><BR>
    <I>Sat Sep  8 19:39:26 CEST 2012</I>
    <P><UL>
        <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="018570.html">[Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?
</A></li>
        <LI>Next message: <A HREF="018594.html">[Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?
</A></li>
         <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> 
              <a href="date.html#18571">[ date ]</a>
              <a href="thread.html#18571">[ thread ]</a>
              <a href="subject.html#18571">[ subject ]</a>
              <a href="author.html#18571">[ author ]</a>
         </LI>
       </UL>
    <HR>  
<!--beginarticle-->
<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 08/09/12 18:12 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Colin Guthrie &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> We can now replace this symlink with a direct link to systemctl and
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> policy kit should take care of things. Seems odd that shutdown was
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> affected by msec, but halt, reboot and poweroff were not. Seems kinda
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> pointless and a mis-feature really.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I would not say pointless, allowing non root user to shutdown the
</I>&gt;<i> machine makes sense to be part of the security policy of the machine
</I>
As a feature it's not pointless, but as an implementation it didn't
really cover things and I call it pointless as the feature only covered
the shutdown binary and not poweroff, halt or reboot binaries.


&gt;&gt;<i> As it never really worked, I'll kill it from msec and just ship it
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> statically. If this msec feature is needed/desirable then it'll need to
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> be re-implemented as an automatic edit of the policykit policy.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Well a lot of what msec does should be updated for current technologies
</I>&gt;<i> drakx should also be updated to require authorization for actions
</I>&gt;<i> instead of running as root
</I>
Indeedy.

Col


-- 

Colin Guthrie
colin(at)mageia.org
<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A>

Day Job:
  Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A>
Open Source:
  Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A>
  PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A>
  Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A>
</PRE>


<!--endarticle-->
    <HR>
    <P><UL>
        <!--threads-->
	<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="018570.html">[Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?
</A></li>
	<LI>Next message: <A HREF="018594.html">[Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?
</A></li>
         <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> 
              <a href="date.html#18571">[ date ]</a>
              <a href="thread.html#18571">[ thread ]</a>
              <a href="subject.html#18571">[ subject ]</a>
              <a href="author.html#18571">[ author ]</a>
         </LI>
       </UL>

<hr>
<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev
mailing list</a><br>
</body></html>