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<H1>[Mageia-dev] halt and shutdown users: Still needed?</H1>
<B>Julien</B>
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<I>Sun Sep 9 12:10:08 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Le Sun, 09 Sep 2012 12:55:17 +0300,
Sander Lepik <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">sander.lepik at eesti.ee</A>> a écrit :
><i> 08.09.2012 19:49, Colin Guthrie kirjutas:
</I>><i> > Hi,
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</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>><i> +1 on removing them. I didn't even know about them :)
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</I>><i> Sander
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The same for me, didn't know they existed.
Julien
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