[plug] Question on Linux system security

[Carl Gherardi]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Greg Mildenhall wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Carl Gherardi wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Gavin Corfield wrote:
> > I came across this a while back when someone (linux clueless) said "So
> > what would happen if I typed reboot?"
> > as it turns out...
> > rwxrwxrwx root root 	reboot -> halt
> > rwxr-xr-x root root 	halt
> > As a normal user you can reboot the machine from the console.
>
> ???
> Are you trying to suggest that this program will shut the machine down
> when run as a normal user? I would be astonished if the kernel checks your
> tty when you call halt, and I see no other way for this to work.
>

Yep, it acually reboots the machine - I had X running and from an xterm
running as a normal user this worked.

Carl