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

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 08/09/12 18:12 did gyre and gimble:
> 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 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.


>> 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

Indeedy.

Col


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