On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, cyberspace wrote:
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> While i'm doing my experiment on shutdown command. I noticed that
> an ordinary user can shutdown/reboot a server using their own password. As
> far as i know, ordinary user can only shutdown, reboot a server provided
> he/she knows the root password or a user was added in /etc/shutdown.allow.
> I just want to know if my thinking is right. I need your comments
> guys/guls, is this a bug or i maybe wrong lang.. :). Btw, i'm using RH6.2.
This is a new "feature" in RH 6.2 in which an ordinary user can shut down
the system. I don't know how to disable it.
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