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List:       freedesktop-pm-utils
Subject:    Re: [Pm-utils] pm-suspend: should use quirks by default
From:       Stefan Seyfried <seife () suse ! de>
Date:       2007-12-10 9:44:13
Message-ID: 20071210094413.GD31512 () suse ! de
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 01:12:56AM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Friday 07 December 2007 15:47:30 Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:59:19PM +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> > > Well on Fedora 8:
> > >
> > > [terry@splash beam.beamnet]$ whereis pm-suspend
> > > pm-suspend: /usr/bin/pm-suspend /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
> > >
> > > Also pm-suspend can be run as a normal user as: /usr/bin/pm-suspend
> > > is linked to consolehelper.
> > >
> > > This is with the standard pm-utils-0.99.4-6.fc8 package.
> >
> > Well, then file a bug against Fedora if it does not work. Upstream is not
> > broken that way.
> 
> What is the possible bug, that you see here?

That a non-root user can call pm-{suspend,hibernate} which might crash his
machine. That's what Terry told us, i have not tested this.
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Stefan Seyfried
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