Unprivileged user shutdown
Cole Tuininga
cole at tuininga.org
Wed Oct 13 13:49:01 EDT 2004
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 12:59, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> How about this?
>
> useradd -c "execute reboot"
> -d /root
> -g 0
> -p initialPasswd
> -s /usr/bin/poweroff
> -o
> -u 0
> poweroff
There aren't any security problems here? It seems like there could be
potential issues with having a "second root" account where the password
was known. I'm not sure where exactly the problem would come from, but
it just seems like there could be potential issues.
Or am I just being overly paranoid? 8)
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Cole Tuininga <cole at tuininga.org>
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