[Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?

[Pascal Terjan]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> We can now replace this symlink with a direct link to systemctl and
> policy kit should take care of things. Seems odd that shutdown was
> affected by msec, but halt, reboot and poweroff were not. Seems kinda
> pointless and a mis-feature really.

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

> As it never really worked, I'll kill it from msec and just ship it
> statically. If this msec feature is needed/desirable then it'll need to
> be re-implemented as an automatic edit of the policykit policy.

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