And I quote from The Excellent Manual:
If
shutdown is called from init, 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...
What you need to do is to not run shutdown from the command line. Instead,
you would do something like an
init 6
which would do almost what you want. Be aware that shutdown can be used to
do a shutdown followed by a halt OR a shutdown followed by a reboot. The
init 6 will be default do a reboot. The mods to make init 6 do a halt is
left as an excersize for the student. ;-)
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 12:50:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: Craig Kattner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: RedHat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: question about shutdown
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According to the man page for shutdown, I can create a file in /etc called
shutdown.allow with a user name per line to allow that user to shutdown
the system. I have created said file and added the user I want to be able
to shut down as to it, but if I run "/sbin/shutdown -r now" it says that
only root can shut the system down. I can chmod +s shutdown and then a
normal user can shut the system down, but I only want this one user to be
able to do so. How can I get around this? Thanks.
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