Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread Mario Torre
Thank you for all the answers. Now I know something more about that! I think there are a lot of things to learn, and only a system like Linux can teach them. Thank you again! Mario -- --=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-- http://antartica.sourceforge.net http://digilande

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread JF Martinez
Alan Shutko a écrit : > Mario Torre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is security? Why there were 3 release of the usermode package, as they > > allowed a normal user to do "shutdown -h now", and now they are fixed, but > > there is the ability to shutdown the system anyway with poeroff or >

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > There is no way to avoid a shutdown if you have access to the console? If you want to keep people from turning the power off, lock t up where they need keys tog et to it. Also look to BIOS passwords, LILO passwords, disabling or removing the floppy drive, ensuring it

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Mario Torre wrote: > > > > Press CTRL-ALT-DEL, there you go. ;-) > > Yes, there is a way to avoid that? Sure, like Douglas says ctrl-alt-del's action is defined in /etc/inittab > > What is security? Why there were 3 release of the usermode package, as they > allowed a normal

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread Tony Nugent
On Sun Dec 10 2000 at 17:37, Mario Torre wrote: > > Press CTRL-ALT-DEL, there you go. ;-) > > Yes, there is a way to avoid that? vi /etc/inittab Cheers Tony ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/li

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Mario Torre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is security? Why there were 3 release of the usermode package, as they > allowed a normal user to do "shutdown -h now", and now they are fixed, but > there is the ability to shutdown the system anyway with poeroff or > CTRL-ALT-DEL? Because power

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:37:13PM +0100, Mario Torre wrote: > > Yes, there is a way to avoid that? Yes. run "man console.perms" and change the definition of a "console user". Matt ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listm

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread Mario Torre
Pekka Savola wrote: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Mario Torre wrote: > > Only a monito and a keyboard, as well as access to some kind of floppy > > device, not bootable by default. No access to the rest of the machine. > > > > You are allowed to use the poweroff tool to shutdown the system. > > Press CTR

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Mario Torre wrote: > Matt Wilson wrote: > > You should only be able to poweroff if you are sitting at the console, > > or if you are logged into the console as well as accessing the machine > > remotely. In this case, you could just reach down and hit the power > > switch an

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread Pekka Savola
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Mario Torre wrote: > Only a monito and a keyboard, as well as access to some kind of floppy > device, not bootable by default. No access to the rest of the machine. > > You are allowed to use the poweroff tool to shutdown the system. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL, there you go. ;-) --

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-10 Thread Mario Torre
Matt Wilson wrote: > You should only be able to poweroff if you are sitting at the console, > or if you are logged into the console as well as accessing the machine > remotely. In this case, you could just reach down and hit the power > switch anyway, so how is this less secure? > > Matt Imagine

Re: Poweroff without permissions probabily due to a bug in consolehelper

2000-12-09 Thread Matt Wilson
You should only be able to poweroff if you are sitting at the console, or if you are logged into the console as well as accessing the machine remotely. In this case, you could just reach down and hit the power switch anyway, so how is this less secure? Matt On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:04:37PM +0