On Lu, 07 iul 14, 23:41:59, Miroslav Hrabal wrote: > > Regarding reboot and shutdown, it's possible to handle this giving > regular users sudo permission to use /sbin/shutdown (or halt/reboot), > isn't it? Regarding automounting, I thought that it's usually handled > by gvfs? Why would anybody had to use systemd because of it? > (Sorry if I'm mistaken)
Because you can't do it securely, unless you can reliably and securely distinguish between users that are logged on locally or remote[1]. Just imagine that "fun" one can have on a multi-user system by remotely: - shutting down the system - reading contents of removable storage - listening in on audio streams (even the microphone) - recording from the webcam (bonus points for disabling the activity led) If you find a way to solve this by using only traditional Unix groups I'm sure a lot of people would like to know how. [1] no, utmp doesn't count, even utmp(5) states programs would be "foolish" to depend on its integrity Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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