"Kurc, Marcin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man shutdown > > ACCESS CONTROL > shutdown can be called from init(8) when the magic keys > CTRL-ALT-DEL are pressed, > by creating an appropriate entry in /etc/inittab. This means that > everyone who has > physical access to the console keyboard can shut the system down. To > prevent this, > shutdown can check to see if an authorized user is logged in on one > of the virtual > consoles. 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 preĀ > sent. 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 > > shutdown: no authorized users logged in > > to the (physical) system console. The format of /etc/shutdown.allow > is one user > name per line. Empty lines and comment lines (prefixed by a #) are > allowed. CurĀ > rently there is a limit of 32 users in this file. > > Note that if /etc/shutdown.allow is not present, the -a argument is > ignored.
Now according to the instructions above I created this file #this will allow only the named person besides root to shut-down the #system. #first it is oswald oswald #then somebody else to test it I logged in as another user in the console and hit the magic keys, instead of giving me the warning that: shutdown: "no authorized users logged in" the pc rebooted, so what is missing here? > > Marcin Kurc -- LinuxUser aka Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] registered-linux-user # 134.818 at http://counter.li.org The box said Windows, NT or better, so I installed Linux :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]