Carel Fellinger schrieb:
> [...]
> You see, shutdown really needs root privilege, soit.
> So either you use the suid trick on /sbin/shutdown (better not, and if not
> then there is no need to have shutdown (/sbin) in your path either),
> or signal some process running with root privilege to call sh
Hai Andreas,
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:13:55PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
> Carel Fellinger wrote:
...
> > shutdown isn't in your PATH, but even if it were it has no SUID flag so
> > it won't do you no good.
>
> You are absolutely right. Well I wouldn't believe it, so I had to see
> for
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> [...]
> normally anyone whether anyone is logged into the console or not can
> press control alt delete and reboot the system (if you have that line
> in inittab) adding shutdown.allow changes this so that
> control-alt-delete only works when a listed user is logged into a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It looks like (to me) that making shutdown setuid root means anybody
>can shutdown the computer, from any location, as /etc/shutdown.allow
>is only checked when -a is passed. Am I wrong?
No, that is correct. Shutdown wasn't rea
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:54:23AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
>
> It looks like (to me) that making shutdown setuid root means anybody
> can shutdown the computer, from any location, as /etc/shutdown.allow
> is only checked when -a is passed. Am I wrong?
no you are correct, if you make shutdown suid
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ethan> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:56:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
>> Wrong - shutdown.allow has no affect for ctrl+alt+del. You can
>> press this even if you are not logged in.
Ethan> Wrong, the existance of /etc/shutdown.a
Hello, Carel!
You should have received the following message earlier, but somehow it
was lost. Here it is again:
Carel Fellinger wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:26:20PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
> > Hello, debian-users!
> >
> > There are two users on my debian system, who I want t
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:56:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> Wrong - shutdown.allow has no affect for ctrl+alt+del. You
> can press this even if you are not logged in.
Wrong, the existance of /etc/shutdown.allow means that a listed user
must be logged in on any of the console tty's for control-al
> "Carel" == Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Carel> I've just read the Fine Manual just to please you:) and I
Carel> think it only effects Ctrl-Alt-Del from the console, not
Carel> calling shutdown from the command-line unless you make it a
Carel> SUID program. (for
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:23:47AM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
>
> Sorry, Ivan, I didn't make this very clear. I *do* want to use
> Ctrl-Alt-Del. I just wanted to point out that it is behaving
> differently, since I have '/etc/shutdown.allow'. Now I have to be logged
> in at least as a nor
"Kasatenko Ivan Alex." wrote:
>
> Hello Andreas,
>
> Monday, October 16, 2000, 8:26:20 PM, you wrote:
>
> AH> There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be able to reboot
> AH> and halt without being root. For this purpose I created
> AH> /etc/shutdown.allow with the corresponding us
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:26:20PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
> Hello, debian-users!
>
> There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be able to reboot
> and halt without being root. For this purpose I created
> /etc/shutdown.allow with the corresponding user names. Now when I p
Hello Andreas,
Monday, October 16, 2000, 8:26:20 PM, you wrote:
AH> There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be able to reboot
AH> and halt without being root. For this purpose I created
AH> /etc/shutdown.allow with the corresponding user names. Now when I press
AH> Ctrl-Alt-Del the
Hello, debian-users!
There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be able to reboot
and halt without being root. For this purpose I created
/etc/shutdown.allow with the corresponding user names. Now when I press
Ctrl-Alt-Del the system will reboot as expected - although I have to be
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