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From: czen@inibara.cc.columbia.edu (Chen Zhou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.xenix,comp.security.unix
Subject: Shutdown Account
Date: 6 Jun 1995 22:01:19 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Lines: 24
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <3r2j7f$7p4@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: inibara.cc.columbia.edu
Hi,
In order to let the non-unix personnel at work to gracefully
shutdown the system instead of having them just flip the power. I
created a uid=0 account named shutdown with a password, i had its shell
linked to /usr/etc/halt and I disabled root login from everywhere else
besides the console. we have xdm running on the console, And I tried
using the account and it seems to do what it suppose to do. what i am
curious is if anyone has tried this setup before and if it would pose
any sorts of security problems since i notices that 1) halt can carry
arguments 2) would a combination of this and xdm cause an open loophole?
well, thanks much for the response. please also cc a copy of your post
to me via email at <czen@columbia.edu>
best regards,
/data aka "Jake Luck" <czen@columbia.edu>
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