On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Wei Jiang wrote:

->I just installed redhat6.1. I'm surprised to find that anybody who doesn't
->have root privalage can shutdown the system by typing shudown from the
->command line.


*** If I understood well, you would like to avoid other user to bring down
your box!?

Create a file called "shutdown.allow" in /etc and put in that file the
names of the users allowed to use shutdown. That would normally be root.

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