Security policy oversight needed?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Nov 20 07:42:56 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 08:21 +0100, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> there are also inconsistencies between gui clickery and shell usage...
> simple example:
> 
> click "shutdown" in gnome just does it in f12
> 
> issuesing shutdown -h now on the shell asks for root password ... id
> really expect a system to show consistent behaviour not only in gui
> clickery but system wide. this feels pretty broken to me.

for extra bonus fun, try 'poweroff' :)

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