create user able to shutdown the system

[meekrob]

hi all ,
i need to create a user on a HP-UX system that has the capability to shutdown the system automatically when it log in ,

how can i create this user ?
thank you

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

You add a user name into the /etc/shutdown.allow file, remembering to explicitly include the root user as well

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You can create a user with UID = 0 amd make the shell /sbin/shutdown but I would not do this. I would much prefer to designate certain trained users the ability to shutdown the box via sudo.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

To add to Melvyn's response, you can replace the user's default shell in '/etc/passwd' with '/sbin/shutdown'. Then, when the user logs in, the shutdown command is run.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

we once had such a user to allow the Worstation useres to shutdown their workstations.

The user named stop was a normal user, belonging to the group users. It was configured in /etc/shutdown.allow, which is necessary as mentioned above.

Also this user had his own homedirectory where the .profile did the shutdown. We did not use the /etc/shutdown as shell as the script .profile gave us the opportunity to do some extra stuff befor shutting down the system.

But take care if you use a script like we did. This is a potential security whole.

Hope this helps

Stefan

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

we changed shell-login to csh and added this at the end of the .login file:

cd /
/etc/shutdown -hy 0
logout

HTh
Volkmar