http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-03-13 15:43 -------
I don't have a Mandrake Box anymore to test the Bugfix but in Version 8.2 I
could not solve the problem by removing /usr/bin/shutdown. If I made a symlink
to the userhelper or consolehelper (not sure) with the name shutdown and them
typed "./shutdown now" I had the same problem. As I said, I didn't test the fix
but I just wanted to make sure that the bug doesn't remain in Mandrake. 



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if you type 

shutdown now

as user, your system switches to runlevel 1 and you get a root-shell without any
root-password query.

That's a major security problem which brings Mandrake Linux in security-state
compareable with windows. The Redhat Announcement from two years ago:
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/redhat_advisory-673.html

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