hi,
[newbie] not allowing an unauthorized user to logout ???? how can an
unauthorized user login ??
-ajay
ps - sarang .. i am follwing the identification... :-))
>From: deval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Linux India <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, plug
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [PLUG-Mail] shutdown
>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 18:57:37 +0530
>
>There was a thread about preventing ctrl -alt-delete shutdown from
>unauthorized user. Just happened to read the man page, and here is the
>extract
>
>Vijay
>
>shutdown can check to see if an authorized user is logged in on one of
>the virtual consoles. If shutdown is called with the -a argument (add
>this to the invocation of shutdown in /etc/inittab), it checks to see
>if the file /etc/shutdown.allow is present. It then compares the login
>names in that file with the list of people that are logged in
>on a virtual console (from /var/run/utmp). Only if one of those
>authorized users or root is logged in, it will proceed. Otherwise
>it will write the message
>
>shutdown: no authorized users logged in
>
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