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Indrajit Bhagat — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:11:15 GMT

hi all
how can we place a shutdown command in the user's .profile so that she can't do anything else.

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Victor Fridyev — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:26:53 GMT

Hi,

Define it as the user's shell in /etc/passwd file.

HTH

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James R. Ferguson — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:28:09 GMT

Hi:

The easiest way is to declare '/usr/sbin/shutdown -r y' as the program to use as the shell (i.e. the last field of the '/etc/passwd' record for the user in question.

Then, specify the user in '/etc/shutdown.allow' to enable his/her use of the command. Your modified '/etc/shutdown.allow' should look something like:

serverhostname root
serverhostname indrajit

See the manpages for 'shutdown(1M)' for additional information.

Given this setup, when your user logs into your server, it is shutdown.

Regards!

...JRF...

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James R. Ferguson — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:39:58 GMT

Hi (again):

Correction. The 'passwd' entry should read simply:

/sbin/shutdown

in lieu of somethign like '/usr/bin/sh'.

Regards!

...JRF...

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James R. Ferguson — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:04:56 GMT

Hi (again):

How did I *not* answer your question? Would you like a different method?

Regards!

...JRF...

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AwadheshPandey — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:45:45 GMT

ok, alternate method is edit users id to 0 (root)and place shutdown command to users .profile