On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 17:28:01 -0800
jdow <jdow@earthlink.net> wrote:
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and then others wrote
"The current console user is generally allowed to reboot the system."
why?? isn't that a giant security hole? just from mistakes, not to
mention malice.
I just shut everything down. On reboot I logged in as dave, no apps
running and only one user - me. typing reboot into bash restarted the
machine.
If you have physical access it is trivial to gain root to the host, by booting into single user mode and changing the root password.