Root priviledges needed to poweroff

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Jul 27 12:45:34 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:09:03 +0200,
   Karel Volný <kvolny at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>if the user is local then DO NOT ask for admin privileges (else
>the user will just cut the power supply which is worse than
>killing others' running processes)

I'd prefer to keep that option. A local user would be less likely to power 
off the machine than shut it down. (Which for some of my machines they 
shouldn't be doing.)


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