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- From: martin@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: NT bug!
- Message-ID: <716124969.17922@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 11:36:09 GMT
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
- Lines: 39
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- Hi all,
- I have a windows NT bug! It is not possible to shutdown a windows NT
- system without logging in! It would be useful if the login screen also had
- a button to shutdown the system.
-
- I have seen that `being allowed to shutdown the system' is a user priviledge,
- and until you have logged in the system does not know if you should have this
- priviledge, but I don't think this is a good reason for not allowing
- a shutdown without logging in. How about a separate `pseudo-user' representing
- the logged out state that one can choose to give `shutdown' priviledges too,
- or a global setting?
-
- The other suggestion that I will answer before it is asked is, why not just
- log in as guest? Well, apart from the (modest) extra hassle - which might well
- be an issue for naive people (say a cleaner needs to turn the machine off -
- which is not to say that *all* cleaners are naive! :-) who probably won't
- know there is such a thing as a guest user, and certainly won't realize that
- this would let them shut the system down - there are legitimate reasons for
- disabling guest: If all your filesystems are not NTFS, guest can cause untold
- havoc!!!!
-
- I suppose another possibility is simply to turn the machine off, but this
- doesn't feel right! (Are the filesystems - even FAT - safe enough for this???
-
- BTW: Why does the system let user guest log in, even when an incorrect
- password is given??? *Can* one disable guest?
- Another bug? :-)
-
-
- Martin
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- Dr. Martin C. Atkins
- Dept. of Computer Science
- University of York
- Heslington
- York YO1 5DD
- ENGLAND
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