i tried the /etc/allow in suse and it did not work for me On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:31:00AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, STiNG of DEATH wrote:

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Thanks for the info. I believe (from reading the shutdown(8)) manual that it is also possible to administer shutdown privelages using /etc/shutdown.allow. I suppose this is just the old way of doing it compared to PAM.

I just took another look at the usermode package and the shutdown man page myself. The man page is for /sbin/shutdown, not /usr/bin/shutdown which is part of usermode, and is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/consolehelper. The consolehelper man page is the one you want to read :)

I'm not really sure what the shutdown.allow file does, but AFAICT it won't restrict local users from using /usr/sbin/shutdown.

MSG

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