How are you rebooting? What groups are you in? From the command line? When I try this on Ubuntu (don't have a RHEL/CentOS here) I get "Have to be root" if I issue the /sbin/reboot command as an ordinary user. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 at yahoo.com>wrote: > I'm curious why any user logged in at the console can issue the 'reboot' > command and reboot the system. I've tested/verified this to work, and read > some older posts about this. If it were a bug, I suspect it would be fixed > by now. > Also, if a user is logged into the console, and then logs in via ssh from > another system, that user can also reboot the system from that ssh > connection. It would seem that once a user authenticates on the console, > and remains on the console, they can reboot from any other/new tty. Once > they drop off the console, the ssh connections can no longer reboot. > > If this is by design, why? > > Thanks! > > Regards, > Joseph Spenner > > --- > > > If life gives you lemons, keep them-- because hey.. free lemons. > "~heart~ Sticker" fixer: > http://microflush.org/stuff/stickers/heartFix.html > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >