Re: why doesn't shutdown work ??

On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:26:46 -0400
Frank McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 May 2010 22:29:21 +0530
> "J. Bakshi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:29:02 +0530
> > MohanSai <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Bakshi! 
> > > i'm not an expert at linux. there are two inittab files on my
> > > ubuntu system. 
> > > 1) /etc/inittab
> > > 2) /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab
> > > which file needs to be appended with the line you mentioned?
> > > "shutdown -a /etc/shutdown.allow"
> > > could you specify which file ? 
> > > Also, will this also work for reboot and how about locking the
> > > system.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > My box is based on debian. Generally /etc/inittab is the file where
> > all this modification can be done. Even in rpm based distro. So it
> > should be the same in ubuntu which is also based on debian
> > 
> 
>   I tried it on my box (Debian testing) and all I got was an error
> message saying tags can only be 4 characters long. (Line added
> to /etc/inittab)
> 
> 
> 

How the entry look like ?

It should be

````````````
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -a -t3 -r now
```````````````````````

Create a file named shutdown.allow in /etc. The shutdown.allow file
should list the usernames of any users who are allowed to shutdown the
system using Ctrl-Alt-Del . The format of the shutdown.allow file is a
list of usernames, one per line

Please check if this helps.

with regards,
J.B.

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