'Twas brillig, and Charles A Edwards at 09/09/12 01:42 did gyre and gimble: > 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.
I think you're talking about the halt and shutdown *commands* here, not the *users*? The users just have the commands as their shell and you need to give them a password and that lets people "login" as those users to then halt/shutdown the machine. As you say the commands themeselves serve that purpose these days so I think the user definitions can just go. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
