reboot works for non-priveliged user

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon May 9 08:50:06 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 09:48 +0100, William John Murray wrote:
>   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?

was the user who was logged in via ssh also logged into the console?

-sv




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