reboot authentication ???

From: BrianD (briand_at_SPAMASIDE)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:09:24 -0600

Fedora 2

SysVinit-2.85-25
usermode-1.70-2
kernel-2.6.8-1.521
gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1-1

How is the authentication handled when the reboot (consolehelper)
command is run? Is reboot also calling userhelper? I think for a
multiuser system reboots should not be permissible without an
established sudo protocol. I can chmod halt yes, but what is the
"correct" way to manipulate command line reboot permissions and also
that provided with the "Log Out" tool in Gnome?

In a revers type situation, without using sudo, how do I allow the
up2date program to be run by mortals and not give out root passwords as
/usr/bin/up2date is also is pointer to consolehelper?

Thanks

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