------Original Message------
From: "Vishal Doshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: March 18, 2000 10:00:36 PM GMT
Subject: RE: [ILUG-BOM] shutdown and halt
yes it is true..only root has the authority to shudown a machine
when u tried it as user..it prompted for root password.
in order to change from use rto root use suid and then shutdown.
shutting down as root is the safest
had this problem once... solved it too... can't remember what I did tho.
try ctrl+alt+del... does that work ?
init 6 ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip S Tellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 8:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [ILUG-BOM] shutdown and halt
>
>
> I have to be root to run shutdown and halt. If I run it as any other
> user, it asks for a password. I assume this is the root password, and
> type it in. It waits for 1 second and returns to the shell prompt. No
> shutdown, no restart, no error messages.
>
> What is going on? I tried making the programs suid root, but no diff.
>
> Philip
>
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