Re: An elementary question about execution permissions

2006-09-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Paul Scott wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:58:18 +0200 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And NO, Cecile is not in tose list! :-(=) I had to do this, since Cecile (my cat) had several times rebootet my computer. (I have configured my fvwm with keyboard support

Re: An elementary question about execution permissions

2006-09-04 Thread Paul Scott
David E. Fox wrote: > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:58:18 +0200 > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> And NO, Cecile is not in tose list! :-(=) >> >> I had to do this, since Cecile (my cat) had several times rebootet >> my computer. (I have configured my fvwm with keyboard support) >

Re: An elementary question about execution permissions

2006-09-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:58:18 +0200 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And NO, Cecile is not in tose list! :-(=) > > I had to do this, since Cecile (my cat) had several times rebootet > my computer. (I have configured my fvwm with keyboard support) The trick is to use su to switch t

Re: An elementary question about execution permissions

2006-08-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Create the file /etc/shutdown.allow and put all user into it (one per line) which you want to allow to reboot. And NO, Cecile is not in tose list! :-(=) I had to do this, since Cecile (my cat) had several times rebootet my computer. (I have configured my fvwm with keyboard support) Greetings

Re: An elementary question about execution permissions

2006-08-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:45:01AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi, dear all. > > $ ls -l /sbin/shutdown > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18516 2005-01-04 23:43 /sbin/shutdown > > The above output shows execution permissions for all users: owner (root), > group (root) and other user on the binary

Re: An elementary question about execution permissions

2006-08-04 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1154688301 past the epoch, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18516 2005-01-04 23:43 /sbin/shutdown > shutdown: you must be root to do that! The binary permissions are correct, so you can execute "shutdown", but it uses system calls which insist on you having uid=0. If you want

Re: An elementary question about execution permissions

2006-08-04 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:45:01 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >Hi, dear all. > > $ ls -l /sbin/shutdown > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18516 2005-01-04 23:43 /sbin/shutdown > >The above output shows execution permissions for all users: owner (root), >group (root) and other user on the binary file `/sb