Hello,
I got your e-mail from the shutdown man page. Sorry if your not the correct
person to e-mail.
I want to allow non-root users to shutdown and reboot the PC. According to
the shutdown man page :
If shutdown is called with the -a argument (add this to the
invocation of shutdown in /etc/inittab), it checks to see
if the file /etc/shutdown.allow is present. It then com�
pares 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
shutdown: no authorized users logged in
to the (physical) system console. The format of /etc/shut�
down.allow is one user name per line. Empty lines and com�
ment lines (prefixed by a #) are allowed.
1) The /etc/shutdown.allow appears to be ignored completely. The following
is output to the console 'shutdown: must be root'
2) The /etc/inittab entry for capturing Ctrl-Alt-Del has no -a option, but
any user can use Ctrl-Alt-Del to shutdown / reboot the machine. (This option
is unsatisfactory. Using IceWM Ctrl-Alt-Del produces a Reboot / Shutdown /
Lock Screen / Logout etc dialog. The Reboot / Shutdown don't work !!!)
Please could you (or someone on the Cooker list) tell me what I'm doing
wrong, what should be in /etc/inittab and how to allow non root users to use
/sbin/shutdown to reboot / shutdown the PC.
Thanks,
Owen
