Re: [Cooker] What's up with shutdown ?

2000-10-30 Thread OS
Thanks. I had managed to get c-a-d to work, but simply by adding /etc/shutdown.allow with any old rubbish in it ! I am surprised that there is no option but to use c-a-d and no ability to call shutdown directly except as root. 'ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -a -t3 -r now' is fine if you want to

Re: [Cooker] What's up with shutdown ?

2000-10-29 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sunday 29 October 2000 03:30 pm, OS wrote: > Is it really impossible for a non root user to run shutdown or init ? Of course not. > Moreover, just by simply adding the file shutdown.allow to /etc results in > anyone being able to , it doesn't seem to matter what's in > it ! This is a dead

[Cooker] What's up with shutdown ?

2000-10-29 Thread OS
Hello, Is it really impossible for a non root user to run shutdown or init ? Moreover, just by simply adding the file shutdown.allow to /etc results in anyone being able to , it doesn't seem to matter what's in it ! This is a dead give away that I do most of my work as root :-o But, then I gues