In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >(But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in >> >/etc/shutdown.allow, "none"?) >> >> Simply don't use the -a switch then. > >I had in mind 'none' in the sense of "no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del." Without >the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?)
Ok, in that case, simply comment out the shutdown line in /etc/inittab >Quite apart from all this, any user who knows the path '/sbin/shutdown' can >execute it, at least with the permissions shutdown has by default. >Eliminating this kind of possibility was the reason I started looking into >the ctrlaltdel business. Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown >has -rwxr-xr-x perms? Why not ? If you aren't root you can execute it but it won't do anything useful.. Mike.
