possible evdev issue?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 22:16 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 02:30:05PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I suppose the logic is that it's
> > equivalent to hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del or the hard reset button, however it
> > also means a remote user could reboot the system without a root
> > password, which seems strange to me.
> 
> Did you try?  With a remote login on a non-root account of a Fedora
> box I see:
> $ reboot
> reboot: Need to be root
> 
> In general "the console owner", and with a remote login you are
> surely not in that category, is able to do various things not
> permitted to others.

I guess that makes sense. It's a shame it's not documented though.

poc