A fantastic example of the old “Physical access is root access” adage
I remember one time that windows didn’t want to give an option to shutdown without rebooting for updates. That was the solution.
Someone installed Windows server 2008 on one of our school computers. The shutdown option was missing. So I asked the teacher about it. He also had no idea how the hell to shut it down. Pressing the power button would just log-out the user.
For at least 2 years it did fine with forced shutdowns.
thats what my friend does… the windows update somehow always breaks the system, requiring a windows reinstall, so he force shutsdown
Why don’t they just disable the single problematic update?
i hate to say this butaverage windows user
Sounds like that would eventually fuck up the system.
Or a not so forceful solution: Go into the Ctrl + Alt + Del menu, and press the power button while holding down Ctrl. Now you can do an emergency shutdown.
I wasn’t in the mood for research, the only thing I had in mind was “just let me go to sleep”.
Not often I learn something new with windows. I never knew that option existed. Thanks!
and with the mandatory “ssssh ssh ssh ssssshhhh” while holding down the power button.
I’m pretty sure that’s a message you’d see on a remote desktop, or Kiosk. Both situations where you don’t usually have access to the power cord either
even so, it’s stupid, you need to apply an update?, shutdown the pc in your work when you’re in your home?, you are being idk hacked and need to shutdown everything?
It’s simple: if you’re a person that’s supposed to be shutting down that computer, you’ll be able to. If you’re encountering the message, you’re using the wrong account, or you’re the wrong person to be doing that. Switch accounts, or call up the right person.
make sense
Allowing a random passerby to access the update settings of the kiosk computer is a lot more stupid, and also insecure.
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Actually, it’s more like
sudo rm -rf /*, since that bypasses the warning.Knowledge is Pow…
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- Install Linux
sudo poweroff
I want less problems, not more.
And please don’t pretend like Windows doesn’t have an option like that.
These messages pop-up because the Admin wants to lock the computer down. It isn’t inherently setup like that.
PoolloverNathan is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
who are ya reporting it to, mr sudo?
secure boot is enabled
Not an issue. Use signed kernels and mok management should be done automatically if you got a user friendly distro
