[plug] Question on Linux system security

[Carl Gherardi]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Gavin Corfield wrote:

> Red hat creates the following entry in /etc/passwd:
>
>
> shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown
>
> gnome switches to this group to enable it to access the shutdown
> command.  I confess I don't know how insecure this makes the system
> reagrding remote rebooting etc but that's how it's done :)
>
> gavin

I came across this a while back when someone (linux clueless) said "So
what would happen if I typed reboot?"

as it turns out...

rwxrwxrwx root root 	reboot -> halt
rwxr-xr-x root root 	halt

As a normal user you can reboot the machine from the console.

Redhat 7.1 for those interested

Carl