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Re: p.s. (was: Re: Shutdown by a user)
Dear Keren,
Thank you very much for your mail.
First let me answer in the sequence.
1. I have a linux cluster without keyboard and Mouse. So,
the need arises to use to 'shutdown' command from a node
in the network.
2. RedHat 6.2 has /etc/pam.d/shutdown,which allows the user to
shutdown the machine after getting the passwd.
3. But I want in RH. 5.2, in which I don't have the file
in /etc/pam.d/shutdown.
Q!! My Question is: If I copy the /etc/pam.d/shutdown from RH6.2, whether
it will work.
> an important note - if you let your user run the 'shutdown' command, they
> will be able to bring the system into single user mode and immediatly have
> a root shell. this is not a good idea. and this is the default setting on
> redhat 6.0... is it the same on redhat 6.2?
Question: Do you say the option of using 'linux single' from LILO prompt.
Ans: If that is the case, I can modify the /etc/lilo.conf with
access restricted with the root passwd, so that no one can use the
'linux single' option without root passwd.
Thanking you and waiting for your reply
N. Sakthivel
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