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Old 10-08-2007
Restricing normal user from poweroff

HI,

How can I restrict normal user from doing 'poweroff' ?



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JAGDISH
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Old 10-08-2007
Good question, if X is installed, take a look at this article. If there's no X, user will receive :
Quote:
[user@host]$ poweroff
poweroff: must be superuser.
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