reboot works for non-priveliged user

nodata fedora at nodata.co.uk
Mon May 9 08:58:15 UTC 2005


>   Hello list,
>            I just noticed that an ordinary user can 'reboot' on fc4t2
> (kernel 2.6.11-1.1287_FC4)
> This works when connected over ssh, which really doesn't feel like a
> desireable feature.
>
>  I tried to reboot one of my organisations machines just now, and, to my
> relief, got an error.
>  But that was scientific linux, ~RHEL based.
>                Any thoughts?
>                      Bill
>

This is standard. Any fedora user with shell access can reboot the machine.
For RHEL, only root can.




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