Colin Guthrie wrote: > 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.
Actually it did cover all of them. If ALLOW_REBOOT=no is set, it removes all 4 of those symlinks. If it's set back to yes, it restores them. Looking at the code, that setting also affects /etc/shutdown.allow, /etc/sysctl.conf, /etc/inittab, /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf, and /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
