Why is Red Hat Enterprise Linux system rebooted by userhelper?

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • System rebooted with following message in /var/log/secure
userhelper[<pid>]: running '/sbin/reboot' with root privileges on behalf of 'root'
  • System poweroff with following message in /var/log/secure
 userhelper[]: running '/sbin/poweroff' with root privileges on behalf of 'root'

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
  • usermode-1.88-3
  • usermode-1.102-3

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