On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Mario Torre wrote:
> Matt Wilson wrote:
> > You should only be able to poweroff if you are sitting at the console,
> > or if you are logged into the console as well as accessing the machine
> > remotely. In this case, you could just reach down and hit the power
> > switch anyway, so how is this less secure?
> >
> > Matt
>
> Imagine:
>
> Only a monito and a keyboard, as well as access to some kind of floppy
> device, not bootable by default. No access to the rest of the machine.
>
> You are allowed to use the poweroff tool to shutdown the system.
>
> Even though you have not the right to do. It was the same about the shutdown
> and usermode problem. It is simply a matter of unlink the proweroff from the
> /usr/bin directory, but it is important to know that, I think.
Uhh.. if you're setting up a box for a special environment it's up to you
to fix the configuration for that particular environment. RH default
simply makes sense in 98% of cases.
- Panu -
>
> Mario
>
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