[CentOS] non-privaledged reboot ???

[Matt Shields]

Not necessarily true.  Lots of people use remote KVM's :)  So just
because someone has access to the console does not mean they have
physical access to the server.

-matt

On 7/8/07, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 22:51 -0700, Robert - eLists wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > On centos 5, if I ssh in as a regular non-superuser account and go to the
> > sbin dir to issue a reboot command, it wont do it as says you must be
> > superuser
> >
> > If you are on the console logged in as a non-superuser account and do the
> > same thing, it will reboot.
> >
> > Is this a feature, or a bug?
>
> If you're at the console you can usually just push the reset or power
> button *anyways*, so it's a non-bug. I believe you can edit the
> appropriate entries in /etc/pam.d if you really want to change this.
>
> --
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>
>
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