Re: shutdown prompt question

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> writes:

> "Dave S" <dsmithye@hotmail.com> writes:
> > Is there another option somewhere else i'm missing?
> > 
> 
> You need to fool around with PAM (assuming you're running Red Hat or 
> a distribution based on it because GNOME doesn't show the halt/reboot
> otherwise I don't think).  Look in /etc/pam.d/reboot and
> /etc/pam.d/shutdown for the config files, and /usr/doc/pam-0.68/html/
> for documentation (if you don't have the docs you may need a newer pam
> package).
> 
> Looking at it quickly I don't actually see a way to disable the
> passwords for console users [...]

Simply comment out the line in /etc/pam.d/{shutdown,halt,reboot}

# auth    required      /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so

Regards,
                                        Owen