Why Restart & Shutdown Buttons on login screen

[Christopher Mocock]

Mustafa Qasim wrote:
> Dears lets consider some child at your home on someone else who didn't 
> have user account on ur system or on that particular OS accidentally 
> turn on  the computer or boots into the OS where  he doesn't hold any 
> account to login. Now how he  can safely reboot your machine without 
> logging in. Here the Shutdown & Restart buttons provides the facility to 
> safely shutdown or restart ur OS.

I tend to agree. Similarly, it seems that a normal user can "reboot" 
from the command line, but not "poweroff". I would have thought reboot 
and poweroff would be root-only.

Obviously this decision has been made for some reason but I can't quite 
see it at the moment.

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