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Old 03-25-2013
RedHat How to know which user has restarted or shutdown the redhat box?
hi guys!

I like to know which user has rebooted or shutdown a redhat box ?

the thing is wanted to know the exact user name who has done this action, ofcourse an admin privileged user only can do this. from a list of admin privileged user to find the exact one.

i used to go with last command but no user name is showing.

Thanks inadvance Smilie
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Old 03-25-2013
I don't use redhat.

Maybe you can do this with sudo?
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Old 04-01-2013
Sudo
Hi,

The process of shutdown and restart on Linux is denied to a normal user. It can only be done by the super user or a user who has elevated sudo privileges.

Normally, if a your does a restart or shutdown using sudo , it will be logged in /var/log/secure log file.

Quote:
Apr 1 09:50:09 SERVERNAME sudo: USERNAME : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/USERNAME ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/shutdown -r now
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Old 04-02-2013
reboot can be done from local console via three-finger-salute, without even logging in. If it was rebooted this way, there will be no way of identifying the person.
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Old 04-03-2013
Thanks for the responses...
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