On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:46:11PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
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Thanks to everyone who responded. I should have been a little clearer
on the system setup. The machine in question consists of a main unit
and a bunch of externally attached hard disks connected to a network.
It has no
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:46:11PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
...
Thanks to everyone who responded. I should have been a little clearer
on the system setup. The machine in question consists of a main unit
and a bunch of externally attached hard disks connected to a network.
It has no
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Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm maintaining a (small-time) group server for our department. In
order to satisfy company policy requirements I need to provide a way
to shutdown the server in case of emergencies. Our network admin
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Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm maintaining a (small-time) group server for our department. In
order to satisfy company policy requirements I need to provide a way
to shutdown the server in case of emergencies. Our network admin was
On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 01:51, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Dear .debs,
I'm maintaining a (small-time) group server for our department. In
order to satisfy company policy requirements I need to provide a way
to shutdown the server in case of emergencies. Our network admin was
kind enough to give
I can't resist it!
Add a usb digital camera to the box and only allow people who are not
logged in via ssh (and therefore known users) to shut the machine down
by using the Ctrl+Alt+Del on a keyboard. Add a shutdown init script to
the start of the process which takes a few snaps of the
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:37:24AM +, Niall Walsh wrote:
I can't resist it!
me too:)
Add a usb digital camera to the box and only allow people who are not
I've thought of this too, but rejected it because it's s easy to
circumvent, just place your hand in front of the camera.
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Carel Fellinger wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:37:24AM +, Niall Walsh wrote:
I can't resist it!
me too:)
Add a usb digital camera to the box and only allow people who are not
I've thought of this too, but rejected it because it's s easy to
circumvent, just place your hand in
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:59:40PM +, Niall Walsh wrote:
Carel Fellinger wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:37:24AM +, Niall Walsh wrote:
I can't resist it!
me too:)
Add a usb digital camera to the box and only allow people who are not
I've thought of this too, but rejected it
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This would be a wonderful application of OTP's.
On Thursday 29 November 2001 11:59 am, Niall Walsh wrote:
Maybe put
the password with the security guard so he can record who took the
passwd to reset it (obviously you need to reset the password
On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 01:51, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Dear .debs,
I'm maintaining a (small-time) group server for our department. In
order to satisfy company policy requirements I need to provide a way
to shutdown the server in case of emergencies. Our network admin was
kind enough to give
I can't resist it!
Add a usb digital camera to the box and only allow people who are not
logged in via ssh (and therefore known users) to shut the machine down
by using the Ctrl+Alt+Del on a keyboard. Add a shutdown init script to
the start of the process which takes a few snaps of the
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:37:24AM +, Niall Walsh wrote:
I can't resist it!
me too:)
Add a usb digital camera to the box and only allow people who are not
I've thought of this too, but rejected it because it's s easy to
circumvent, just place your hand in front of the camera.
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ons, 2001-11-28 kl. 02:58 skrev Olaf Meeuwissen:
That's exactly what my sudo setup does right now. The problem is that
apparently *everyone* needs to be able to shut down the machine (for
reasons that are beyond me). Added accounts on an as needed basis is
fine with me, but I don't fancy
Carel Fellinger wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:37:24AM +, Niall Walsh wrote:
I can't resist it!
me too:)
Add a usb digital camera to the box and only allow people who are not
I've thought of this too, but rejected it because it's s easy to
circumvent, just place your hand
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:59:40PM +, Niall Walsh wrote:
Carel Fellinger wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:37:24AM +, Niall Walsh wrote:
I can't resist it!
me too:)
Add a usb digital camera to the box and only allow people who are not
I've thought of this too, but rejected it
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This would be a wonderful application of OTP's.
On Thursday 29 November 2001 11:59 am, Niall Walsh wrote:
Maybe put
the password with the security guard so he can record who took the
passwd to reset it (obviously you need to reset the password
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Rishi L Khan wrote:
How about Cntrl-Alt-Del? That shuts down a debian box without even logging
in. As far as accountablity ... you could do it the old fashioned way and
have a sign in sheet ... one stupid policy deserves another.
-rishi
It _can_ shut
On 28 Nov 2001, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 18:58, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can't you give a group sudo access? If so, just add everyone to a group
and give that group sudo
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:58:47AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can't you give a group sudo access? If so, just add everyone to a group
and give that group sudo /sbin/halt or sudo /sbin/shutdown or both.
That's exactly what my sudo setup does
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Rishi L Khan wrote:
How about Cntrl-Alt-Del? That shuts down a debian box without even logging
in. As far as accountablity ... you could do it the old fashioned way and
have a sign in sheet ... one stupid policy deserves another.
-rishi
It _can_ shut
On 28 Nov 2001, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 18:58, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can't you give a group sudo access? If so, just add everyone to a group
and give that group sudo
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:58:47AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can't you give a group sudo access? If so, just add everyone to a group
and give that group sudo /sbin/halt or sudo /sbin/shutdown or both.
That's exactly what my sudo setup does
Dear .debs,
I'm maintaining a (small-time) group server for our department. In
order to satisfy company policy requirements I need to provide a way
to shutdown the server in case of emergencies. Our network admin was
kind enough to give me two alternatives:
1) provide an on-screen shutdown
Can't you give a group sudo access? If so, just add everyone to a group
and give that group sudo /sbin/halt or sudo /sbin/shutdown or both.
Or you could write your own script which wraps around halt/shutdown and
logs what it's doing via logger or syslog...
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 17:51, Olaf
Do you have any source of information about the employees? HR
database or something like that? You could cobble together a setuid
Perl or C program that asks them information only they would know to
authenticate them, verifies it, logs it, and then does a shutdown.
Set up a guest account with
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can't you give a group sudo access? If so, just add everyone to a group
and give that group sudo /sbin/halt or sudo /sbin/shutdown or both.
That's exactly what my sudo setup does right now. The problem is that
apparently *everyone* needs to be able to
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 18:58, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can't you give a group sudo access? If so, just add everyone to a group
and give that group sudo /sbin/halt or sudo /sbin/shutdown or both.
That's
Dear .debs,
I'm maintaining a (small-time) group server for our department. In
order to satisfy company policy requirements I need to provide a way
to shutdown the server in case of emergencies. Our network admin was
kind enough to give me two alternatives:
1) provide an on-screen shutdown
Can't you give a group sudo access? If so, just add everyone to a group
and give that group sudo /sbin/halt or sudo /sbin/shutdown or both.
Or you could write your own script which wraps around halt/shutdown and
logs what it's doing via logger or syslog...
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 17:51, Olaf
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can't you give a group sudo access? If so, just add everyone to a group
and give that group sudo /sbin/halt or sudo /sbin/shutdown or both.
That's exactly what my sudo setup does right now. The problem is that
apparently *everyone* needs to be able to
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 18:58, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can't you give a group sudo access? If so, just add everyone to a group
and give that group sudo /sbin/halt or sudo /sbin/shutdown or both.
That's exactly what my sudo setup does right now. The
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 18:58, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can't you give a group sudo access? If so, just add everyone to a group
and give that group sudo /sbin/halt or sudo /sbin/shutdown or both.
That's
How about Cntrl-Alt-Del? That shuts down a debian box without even logging
in. As far as accountablity ... you could do it the old fashioned way and
have a sign in sheet ... one stupid policy deserves another.
-rishi
On 28 Nov 2001, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Blake Barnett [EMAIL
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:51:19AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
I'm maintaining a (small-time) group server for our department. In
order to satisfy company policy requirements I need to provide a way
to shutdown the server in case of emergencies. Our network admin
was kind enough to give
Do you have any source of information about the employees? HR
database or something like that? You could cobble together a setuid
Perl or C program that asks them information only they would know to
authenticate them, verifies it, logs it, and then does a shutdown.
Set up a guest account with
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