[11097] in bugtraq
Re: linuxconf doesn't seem to deal correctly with
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcelo Roccasalva)
Thu Jul 22 19:19:55 1999
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:56:49 -0300
Reply-To: Marcelo Roccasalva <marcelo@MENDOZA.GOV.AR>
From: Marcelo Roccasalva <marcelo@MENDOZA.GOV.AR>
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In-Reply-To: <99063023545200.01043@targa.splitvt.org>; from Domingos Bruges on
Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 11:32:14PM +0100
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 11:32:14PM +0100, Domingos Bruges wrote:
> Greetings you all,
>
> I'm not sure that what I'm about the say does really work, but i've
> tested it successfully in 3 RedHat 6.0 boxes with (1.14 - subrev 4).
>
> If you use linuxconf in order to create / edit any user
> system priviledges, you may notice that if you set a user to have Denied
> priviledges on the shutdown command he can stil be able to reboot / shutdown it.
> It seems that linuxconf isn't dealing correctly with /etc/pam.d/reboot
Linuxconf shutdown options has to do with shutting down the system from it's
graphical interface or with linuxconf --shutdown. It doesn't deal with
distribution specific way of limitting shutdown... maybe it should, anyway...
--
Marcelo
