[Mimedefang] Slightly OT: System shutdown by non-privledged user

WBrown at e1b.org WBrown at e1b.org
Tue Apr 20 11:21:27 EDT 2004


mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 04/20/2004 10:53:50 
AM:

> What hardware & O/S are you using? For example, on Sun w/ Solaris 8 or
> later, just hitting the power switch can allow a non-root user to do
> a controlled shutdown. Check the man page for your /etc/inittab and
> see if it has a POWERFAIL action. In Solaris 9, a POWERFAIL simply
> does a: /usr/sbin/shutdown -g0 -i5 -y


My bad.  I'm using RHEL 3.0.  I also have one SuSE 8.1 box as well, but 
that one is not a production system. 



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