Local users get to play root?

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Thu Nov 19 23:02:01 UTC 2009


Le mercredi 18 novembre 2009 à 19:23 -0500, Bill Nottingham a écrit :

> Out of the box, a desktop user has the ability to shut down the machine.

Well, not really anymore. If you try to press the power button now you
won't get a nice software shutdown as before but an evil "do you really
want to do what you've just asked me to do" popup

Really useful when X is wedged and you can't close the damn popup.

You are safe! Anyone can install anything without password, but the
power button has been disabled!

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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