Re: linuxconf doesn't seem to deal correctly with

From: Marcelo Roccasalva (marceloat_private)
Date: Wed Jul 21 1999 - 13:56:49 PDT

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    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
    



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