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

[Sander Lepik]

08.09.2012 19:49, Colin Guthrie kirjutas:
> Hi,
>
> So there exists two users (provided by default from the setup pkg)
> called "halt" and "shutdown". These users just run the halt and shutdown
> commands as their shell. This means su'ing or sudo'ing or setting a
> password and logging in as them, will shut the machine down.
>
> 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?
>
> Col
>
+1 on removing them. I didn't even know about them :)

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Sander