Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'
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 system will reboot as expected - although I have to be
AH> logged in as a qualified user, according to shutdown.allow.
When you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, init(1) gets it and executes reboot
sequence, afaik. So, the only right way in this situation is to
disable Ctrl+Alt+Del at all.
AH> This looks perfectly reasonable to me as this procedure is described in
AH> /etc/inittab. However when I attempt to type 'shutdown -a -r now' or
AH> 'shutdown -a -h now' by myself, it says 'shutdown: command not found'.
AH> I still have to be root in this case.
Add /usr/sbin into your path with:
>> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
in BASH, if I'm not mistaken. :)
Everything should work.
AH> Thanks in advance,
AH> Andreas.
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Regards,
Ivan mailto:skywriter@rnc.ru
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