Why is Red Hat Enterprise Linux system rebooted by userhelper?
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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