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Mandrake makes it possible to reboot/halt/shutdown the system as normal user, by default!
This is not a good thing, therefore I really would like to disable it, but I can't figure out, how Mandrake did it... can anybody help?
I have played with it, and it dosn't seem to be setUID root, but I can be wrong.
The only solution I have right now is to chmod a-x /sbin/halt, etc. But this is not a good solution, because then root can't do it either.
this should set a file like /sbin/shutdown to have permissions of
r-x------ and remove its suid... I think /sbin/halt is just a symbolic link to /sbin/shutdown isn't it?
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