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Re: Non-priv'ed users able to reboot RH 7.0?


From: Aaron Campbell <aaron () MONKEY ORG>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:57:14 -0400

On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Joe Testa wrote:

    I've found on my personal Redhat 7.0 system that any unprivilaged
user can issue a 'reboot' command to reboot the machine.  I have another

Have you tried 'reboot' as an unpriviledged user logged in over the
network? I'm pretty sure it only lets you do it at the console. It's a
known 'feature'.

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Aaron Campbell (aaron () monkey org || aaron () openbsd org)
http://www.biodome.org/~fx


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