Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
> The -a option will allow other non-root users to shutdown the machine
> with the Ctrl-Alt-Del key press. You will need to create and add the
> non-root user names to the /etc/shutdown.allow file, again see the man
> page for shutdown.
IIRC, -a in this case prevents anyone but root and the /etc/shutdown.allow
users from shutting the system down. Without -a anyone who has physical
access could press ctrl-alt-del and reboot the system, since anything
called from inittab has uid=0 [root].
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