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- From: RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert A. Fowler)
- Subject: Re: NT bug!
- Message-ID: <RFowler.347@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- References: <716124969.17922@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:23:29 GMT
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- In article <716124969.17922@minster.york.ac.uk> martin@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
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- > 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?
-
- I think you are looking at this wrong (from a PC viewpoint) workstations/
- mini computers don't get turned off, unless that SuperUser (system
- administrator) Ok's it
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