Re: shutdown prompt question

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Sean Middleditch <sean.middleditch@iname.com> writes: 
> That is a "feature" of you linux distribution, I believe.  Are you using
> RedHat?  It using a program called consolehelper to allow users to easily run
> root-only programs (like halt and reboot) if you know the root password.

No it lets you run them using your own password. It requires your own
password because by default it's supposed to be secure in a public
computer lab or whatever (though I suppose people could just
control-alt-delete anyway so I'm not sure I get it).

> You'll have to reconfigure that program.  The links to halt and
> reboot in /usr/bin are just symlinks to consolehelper.  Remoe those,
> and make symlinks to the actual programs (they should be /sbin or
> /usr/sbin).
> 

That won't work unless you change yourself to have the right to run
reboot/shutdown directly, which is somewhat less secure (not that it
matters here on a home desktop system). 

Havoc