topic Re: Shutdown to User in Operating System - HP-UX

Shutdown to User

Daniel Duarte — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:47:36 GMT

How can I, configure specific shutdown USER, HP-UX 10.20.

Thanks

Re: Shutdown to User

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:50:07 GMT

Set up your user and then add that user to the /etc/shutdown.allow file (you should also add root to that file).

Re: Shutdown to User

RAC_1 — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:50:36 GMT

You mean allow user to shutdown a machine??

You can use /etc/shutdown.allow file. man 1m shutdown for details.

You can slao install sudo and configure it for your requirement.

Re: Shutdown to User

Pete Randall — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:57:30 GMT

Or you can set up restricted SAM access for the user and they can shutdown that way.

sam -r

Pete

Re: Shutdown to User

Daniel Duarte — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:02:23 GMT

I have used this workaround and doesn't work.

# more /etc/shutdown.allow
user

#

Any tips ?

Re: Shutdown to User

Sundar_7 — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:05:42 GMT

What do you mean when you say it doesnt work ?

After adding entries to the /etc/shutdown.allow file, did you try /usr/sbin/shutdown -r -y 0 command by logging in as that user ?

Remember you cannot issue shutdown from a mounted filesystem

$ cd /; /usr/sbin/shutdown -r -y 0

Re: Shutdown to User

Daniel Duarte — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:18:10 GMT

The command used.

$ /usr/sbin/shutdown -r -y 0
User add021 not allowed to shutdown this system (bzhp103) -- exiting shutdown.
$ pwd
/
$ more /etc/shutdown.allow
add021
$

Re: Shutdown to User

Pete Randall — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:26:31 GMT

Daniel,

You need to put the server name in the shutdown.allow file like this:

ie

myserver add021

Pete

Re: Shutdown to User

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:33:28 GMT

Hi,

also make sure that the world has execute permission for /sbin/shutdown. The permissions could be 4555 and could read as -r-sr-xr-x

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: Shutdown to User

Daniel Duarte — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:45:59 GMT

Thank you and regards, it worked !!!!! :)

Re: Shutdown to User

Bill Hassell — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:49:49 GMT

From the man page for shutdown(1m):

"The file contains lines that consist of a system host name and the login name."

So your shutdown.allow file must have the system name too:

mycpu add021