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On Sun, 21 May 2000 20:36:40 Tonglu Yi wrote:
> i find that in redhat non-root user can run shutdown program and halt
> linux system. is it a kernel related problem ?
Type ls -l `which shutdown`
If by any chance it looks like:
rwsr-xr-x root root etc... (we only care about the first three
characters)
then it is running SUID root, i.e., with root privilages.
That would explain it.
Kenneth
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