On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 2:15 PM Dave Stevens <g...@uniserve.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 17:28:01 -0800 > jdow <j...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > <stuff edited out> > > and then others wrote > > "The current console user is generally allowed to reboot the system." > > why?? isn't that a giant security hole? just from mistakes, not to > mention malice. > > I just shut everything down. On reboot I logged in as dave, no apps > running and only one user - me. typing reboot into bash restarted the > machine. If you have physical access it is trivial to gain root to the host, by booting into single user mode and changing the root password. >
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