who can halt your machine? on mine, the answer is anyone! this was a RH 7.1 custom install. a thread i found searching for an answer: Search Result 6 From: Curt Hesher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: halt Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.redhat View: (This is the only article in this thread) | Original Format Date: 2001-05-23 15:08:02 PST Does anyone have a clue why the default RedHat 7.1 installation makes /sbin/halt world executable? Is this normal? Are there any other commands like this in RedHat that should never be executable by anyone but root, but are 755 perms? Curt Hesher [EMAIL PROTECTED] //////////////////////////// does this concern anyone else but me? no activity on this thread since may? it's gotta be someplace else, but this is the first thing i found with the google. it looks like PAM in now in charge of this ( man for details ) today was the first time i ever heard of such a thing. i should keep up with RFCs more. /etc/pam.c/halt is a pam config file, that has the check root perms commented out so, become root, edit the file, delete the comment and save. now generic user#1 can not halt the system. this goes for reboot and poweroff too. if you are the only user on your box, no worries. if you are setting up accounts for other people on your box and you don't want them to be able to shut it off then you may want to look at your pam config files. this actually makes sense if the default is set so that the root is the SA for a particular group that does not have root privileges. i mean if you start installing systems all over the place and the users can't reboot, or turn off there computers, there will be a lot of bitchin' from the help desk. cheers, rob _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
