Re: Shutdown or Reboot

[Christoph Pleger <Christoph Pleger cs tu-dortmund de>]

Hello,

> So that the system shuts down - a non-root call to /sbin/shutdown
> fails.

Yes, and that's why I am asking: I do not want any non-root user to
shut down or restart the machine. So, I want to know what is done to
gain root privileges and how I can prevent that (by a script, not by
any GUI stuff).

Regards
  Christoph