I do not get exactly why he is doing this but ... I played as follows without answer. (No reboot, of course)
He seems to set login shell through /etc/passwd entry as some command. So I checked how login interprets them if it is softlink to some other command by using shell script with $0. It prints right command name with full pathname when su to account. Hah,... On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:01:53PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:15:33PM +0400, Ilya Martynov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > LH> Hello, LH> I added users to halt and reboot, respectively, by > > making the formers login LH> shell /sbin/halt and the latter's > > /sbin/reboot. > > > > LH> If I login as the halt user, the system shuts down and powers > > off. Great. LH> When I login as the reboot user, the system shuts > > down and powers off. Not LH> what I wanted. > > > > LH> This isn't a huge deal, but I would like to know why this is > > happening. LH> Thanks. > > > > May be becouse /sbin/reboot is just simlink to /sbin/halt? Try using > > /sbin/shutdown -r now as shell. > > man halt. When called as 'reboot', halt should. > > It looks as if what Lang's trying should work. Why it's not I don't > know. I'm not going to sacrifice my uptimes to finding out why, but I'd > suggest he investigate. I may the next time I take a system down. > > Cheers. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + For my debian quick-reference, peek into: + + http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
