General system control: Privileges description

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## 1. Privileges description

Here is a list of general privileges:

May use Linuxconf

  This give access to Linuxconf, but not much more. The co-administration only has access through Linuxconf to information already available using a non privileged shell account.

  This is nevertheless the privilege needed to get in. Other privileges are needed to do anything useful.

May activate config changes

  Whenever you quit Linuxconf or use the "Activate changes" button, it perform various probing of the system and let you activate various changes. While this privilege does not let you configure anything, it allows you to make some changes effective.

May shutdown

  This privilege allows you to shutdown/reboot the computer using Linuxconf control panel, or Linuxconf --shutdown command line.

May switch network mode

  (Not supported on all distribution). This allows you to operate the "Switch network mode" of Linuxconf control panel.

May view system logs

  Allows you to view the various logs managed by Linuxconf.

SuperUser equivalence

  This allows you to do absolutely everything inside Linuxconf. Anyone who has this privilege "own" the machine. This privilege was created for home user, to simplify the security model a bit.

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