Richard Adams wrote: > > 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. > The similar problem I have found under Gnome GUI of RedHat6.1. Everybody could click on 'footprint' icon, then on 'Log out' , then on question Really Log out say Yes, after that one is asked for an user's password, if (suppose) doesn't know a password the answer is No, then one is back to login windows where there is no problem to ask for a Halt or Reboot (without any password). Any cure? Misko
