On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:54:23AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > It looks like (to me) that making shutdown setuid root means anybody > can shutdown the computer, from any location, as /etc/shutdown.allow > is only checked when -a is passed. Am I wrong?
no you are correct, if you make shutdown suid root the only way shutdown.allow will work is if all users willingly use the -a switch. sudo is really the only solution as it allows the allowed switches to be controled. > If I am wrong, then the documentation should be corrected for this > special case. no your interpretation of the docs is correct. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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