Unprivileged user shutdown

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Wed Oct 13 13:00:45 EDT 2004


On Oct 13, 2004, at 12:12, Cole Tuininga wrote:

> What I'd like to do is to give them a user account that causes the
> system to go into shutdown mode when logged into.
>
> This is on a Debian Woody box.
>
> Any thoughts on ways I can accomplish this?

Do they use ctrl-alt-delete to legitimately cause a restart?  You could 
modify inittab to do a shutdown instead.

-Bill
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