Security policy oversight needed?

[Bill Nottingham]

Rudolf Kastl (che666 at gmail.com) said: 
> there are also inconsistencies between gui clickery and shell usage...
> simple example:
> 
> click "shutdown" in gnome just does it in f12
> 
> issuesing shutdown -h now on the shell asks for root password ... id
> really expect a system to show consistent behaviour not only in gui
> clickery but system wide. this feels pretty broken to me.

It's a usermode bug in that there's not a wrapper for shutdown
(as opposed to halt/poweroff/reboot.)

Bill