On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Karthik Vishwanath wrote about, shutdown - options.:
> Hi,
>
> I know that on a redhat system a normal user is allowed to shutdown the
> machine by supplying his own passwd. Is there anyway in which I can
> modify something so that any user (including if the person is su'd in as
> root) is prompted to enter the root passwd before a shutdown can be
> performed. The reason why I specify a scenario within the parentheses
> above is to include the case if a user finds root window by accident.
My knowlage is that no one other than root is allowed to shutdown a linux
system, "unless" he has pyhiscal access to the keyboard and does
ctrl-alt-delete and that will only work if root leave's
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -rf now
uncommented in /etc/inittab.
Of course if root decides to allow some or other user to become root via
sudo then that user could do almost anything.
>
> Thanks,
> -Karthik.
>
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