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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Prevent user from creating new user from his login Post 303032110 by Corona688 on Monday 11th of March 2019 05:43:33 PM
Old 03-11-2019
We are not being obtuse, being overly literal, or blocking you. We're telling you that your question is nonsensical. You cannot stop root from being root. Period. Full stop. Any measures you use to stop them, they have full access to undo themselves, by definition.

For instance, useradd and userdel aren't magic -- they edit files. Block them and they can just edit the files by hand, or install something else for the purpose. Block access to the files and bad things will happen since the system needs these files.

You will have to approach the problem from another angle. Rather than 'limit what root can do', you will need to very precisely specify what they are actually allowed to do, and permit that in a non-root user via sudo.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

stop-instance

asadmin-stop-instance(1AS)					   User Commands					asadmin-stop-instance(1AS)

NAME

       asadmin-stop-instance, stop-instance - stops the specified server instance and all the services associated with it

SYNOPSIS

       stop-instance  [--user  admin_user]  [--password  admin_password]  [--host local_host] [--port 4848] [--local=false] [--domain domain_name]
       [--secure|-s]instance_name

       Use the stop-instance to stop the instance with the instance name specified. The stop-instance can be run both locally and  remotely.   The
       named instance must already exist within the given domain; and the instance must be running.

OPTIONS

       --user		       administrative user associated for the instance.

       --password	       administrative password corresponding to the administrative user.

       --host		       host name of the machine hosting the administrative instance.

       --port		       administrative port number associated with the administrative host.

       --local		       determines if the command should delegate the request to administrative instance or run locally.

       --domain 	       name of the domain.

       --passwordfile	       file containing passwords appropriate for the command (e.g., administrative instance).

       --secure 	       if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the administrative instance.

OPERANDS

       instance_name	       name of the instance to be stopped.

       Example 1: Using stop-instance in local mode

       asadmin> stop-instance --local --domain domain1 server1
       Instance server1 stopped

       Where: the server1 instance associated with the domain1 domain is stopped locally.

       Example 2: Using stop-instance in remote mode

       asadmin> stop-instance --user admin --password bluestar --host localhost --port 4848 server1
       Instance server1 stopped

       Where: the server1 instance associated with the named user, password, host and port is deleted from the remote machine.

EXIT STATUS

       0		       command executed successfully

       1		       error in executing the command

INTERFACE EQUIVALENT

       Server Instance page

       asadmin-delete-instance(1AS),   asadmin-start-instance(1AS),  asadmin-create-instance(1AS),  asadmin-restart-instance(1AS),  asadmin-start-
       appserv(1AS), asadmin-stop-appserv(1AS), asadmin-start-domain(1AS), asadmin-stop-domain(1AS)

J2EE 1.4 SDK							    March 2004						asadmin-stop-instance(1AS)
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