Disabling shutdown/reboot for users?

Philippe phd2 at fcomfrench.com
Sun Jan 11 20:09:37 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 21:36, David Jackson wrote:
> Howdy --
> How can I disable the shutdown/reboot on the startup menu for standard users?
> 
> And/Or force them to enter the root password (like redhat-config-*)?
> 
> TX,
> David

Have a look at this :
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/redhatserver.htm

But they still can POWER OFF the server.

Maybe it helps. (google it .. you will find a lot of answers, including
chmod 0500 /sbin/shutdown ...) but this article seem more complete, even
if older.

Philippe

-- 
Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand





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