Re: Problem with '/etc/shutdown.allow'
"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 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.
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 normal user - that wasn't the case before...
> AH> [...] 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. :)
Actually 'shutdown' is in /sbin - so I added /sbin to my path...
> Everything should work.
Now when I type 'shutdown -a -h now' it still tells me, I have to be
root. It looks like I have to set a SUID-flag. But I would prefer a
better solution. Otherwise: What would 'shutdown.allow' be good for?
Thank you very much, anyway.
Best regards,
Andreas.
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