On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, Miroslav Skoric wrote about, Re: shutdown - options.:
> > My knowlage is that no one other than root is allowed to shutdown a linux
> > system, "unless" he has pyhiscal access to the keyboard and does
> > ctrl-alt-delete and that will only work if root leave's
> > ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -rf now
> > uncommented in /etc/inittab.
> >
>
> The similar problem I have found under Gnome GUI of RedHat6.1. Everybody
> could click on 'footprint' icon, then on 'Log out' , then on question
> Really Log out say Yes, after that one is asked for an user's password,
> if (suppose) doesn't know a password the answer is No, then one is back
> to login windows where there is no problem to ask for a Halt or Reboot
> (without any password). Any cure?
At a guess i would say you are using a runlevel other than 3, so my work
around, considering i dont know where gnome has its config files located,
or it could even be something like xfs doing this if your computer startsup
into GUI mode.
Hit ctrl-alt-F1 login as root hit ctrl-alt-delete
Not the perfect solution but it will work cleanly.
>
> Misko
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