Re: A reboot user

From: Jeff Vian (jvian10_at_charter.net)
Date: 05/01/04

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    Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:50:21 -0500
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    Gary Stainburn wrote:

    >On Friday 30 Apr 2004 1:21 pm, WipeOut wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Hi,
    >>
    >>I have a colocated server and when I have to get them to reboot it they
    >>just hit the power switch which can't be good for filesystems and
    >>databases..
    >>
    >>Is there a way I can create a user account that will reboot the server
    >>on login?
    >>
    >>This way I can give them a user account and they simply login with that
    >>account and it reboots the server..
    >>
    >>I am guessing I need to create a login script or something similar but I
    >>am not sure how to get the system to execute the script at login if that
    >>is the way to do it..
    >>
    >>Thnaks..
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Try creating a passwd entry with a uid and gid of '0' (same as root) and set
    >the path for the shell to be a program which simply calls shutdown with the
    >relevent parameters.
    >
    >
    NOT.!!
    a suid root script that gets executed would be much safer for security.
    and in fact the script could do nothing more than "# telinit 6" for his
    task.

    >The program will be run when the user logs in, and the user will be logged out
    >again as soon as the program exits.
    >
    >(Not tried it though)
    >
    > 

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