Here is my tenet session going from Windows/me to Mandrake 8.1:
'''
...
[roger@penguin roger]$ su
Password:
[root@penguin roger]# shutdown -h now
Broadcast message from root (pts/0) Sun Dec 30 19:57:35 2001...
The system is going down for system halt NOW !!
[root@penguin roger]# su roger
[roger@penguin roger]$
...
'''
I log on as myself (Linux doesn't allow me to log on directly as root),
do a su, then shutdown. The broadcast message appears, but I can
continue the using the session. I get the same results with the -hf
option. Last evening I tried for about 90 minutes before I finally
powered off the PC, so it had plenty of time to shutdown.
I tried following some web-based advice to alter the /sbin/shutdown
privileges and ownership. As su, I think I did a
chmod 777 /sbin/shutdown
chown roger:roger /sbin/shutdown
but I get the same results.
It is as if telnet users are somehow given a very low security level and
are not permitted to execute shutdown.
Before I took off the monitor,mouse, and keyboard, I could start
vncserver and shut it down from another PC using the normal logout, then
select halt from the messagebox. But when I start vncserver from
telnet, I just get a logout confirmation box without the halt, reboot
options. I even tried starting vncserver as su, then tried to shutdown
-- same deal, the logout doesn't give me the halt or reboot options.
I am obviously a newbie, is there some basic telnet authorization
procedure I missed?
Roger
Michael Viron wrote:
>Did you type the command as root? If you aren't root, you can't shutdown
>the machine. I've had several times where I have issued the shutdown
>command via ssh as root, and had no problems (although it does
>occassionally take up to 5 minutes to fully shutdown).
>
>Michael
>
>--
>Michael Viron
>Registered Linux User #81978
>Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
>Web Spinners, University of West Florida
>
>At 04:27 PM 12/30/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am trying to make an old PC into a keyboardless, mouseless,
>>monitorless server. It boots and starts up OK and I can access it from
>>telnet and vnc, but it refuses to shutdown.
>>
>>If I do a shutdown -h now from telnet, it broadcasts a message but
>>doesn't shutdown. On vnc, the logoff button doesn't show a halt or
>>reboot option.
>>
>>What are my options?
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Roger
>>
>>
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