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- From: bill@snoopy (Bill Poitras)
- Subject: Re: NT bug!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.202318.19589@msi.com>
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- Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:23:18 GMT
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- martin@minster.york.ac.uk wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Well, it seems you have found a bug of Unix and VMS as well. Boy and
- without even trying!!! :-)
-
- : 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?
-
- That is still a user. It would be interesting to have a user called
- shutdown, that once logged in just runs the shutdown script.
-
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