epoch1970;472138 Wrote: 
> I didn't touch inittab on this (debian lenny) machine before witnessing
> the issue. I don't look there very often... serial console or this kind
> of things. I would avoid fiddling with this file, there is a chance to
> screw a system badly.
> 
> I was a bit surprised at the addition of the shutdown.allow file by
> srvPowerControl, but didn't think of any practical consequences.
> Is it really necessary since shutdown is invoked by root via sudo ?
> Even when there is no pre-existing shutdown.allow file ?
> 
> EDIT: I read "...shutdown can check to see if an authorized user is
> logged in on one of the virtual consoles..." in the man. AFAIK,
> squeezeboxserver is not a user account, its shell is /bin/false so it
> could never log to a console. 
> 
> => My final opinion: remove the shutdown.allow thing, it is useless
OK, I'll do that.  I think my fiddling with shutdown.allow dates back
to the first version of the plugin that I ported to linux from Adrian
C's widows version...before I started modifying sudoers.


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