On 17-Oct-2009 Robert wrote:
>
>
> Buz Davis wrote:
>> I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts "root" and
>> "buz". I would like to be able to issue "shutdown" from the account
>> "buz", and thus created
>> /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry "buz" (without any quotes).
>> I still
>> get the error message "only root can do this" (or something similar)
>> even if I include the '-a' option on the shutdown command. What am I
>> missing ?
>>
> I'm not going to verify this right now but I believe "buz" can execute
> the command "poweroff" to shutdown -h now
> and "reboot" to shutdown -r now.
>
> [rj@mavis rj]$ ls -l `which poweroff`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 2 2009 /usr/bin/poweroff ->
> consolehelper
> [rj@mavis rj]$ ls -l `which reboot`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 2 2009 /usr/bin/reboot ->
> consolehelper
> [rj@mavis rj]$
>From the man page:
If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6,
in other words when it's running normally, shutdown will be invoked
instead (with the -h or -r flag). For more info see the shutdown(8)
manpage.
-Philip
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