[Mageia-dev] halt and shutdown users: Still needed?

[Charles A Edwards]

On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:49:57 +0100
Colin Guthrie wrote:

> This seems like a relic from many years ago and there is no need to
> include such users in this day and age. Should we kill them off?

They are carry-overs/carry-ons from sysvinit.

Personally, since I both boot to and reboot/shut down from init3,
when I actually wish to shutdown the system I use the shutdown command.

And would not keeping both shutdown and halt be useful for system
administer, and on any multi user systems where user Are Not
wanted/allowed to shutdown/halt the system.


    Charles


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