On 02/11/2011 10:03, Ger Hooton wrote:
> Hi all,
> Q1: How can I find out how a machine was shutdown, was it from a
> command, power on/off button, pulling out the power lead? I have look
> in /var/log/messages and I see "shutdown: shutting down for system halt"
> Where can I get more details?
A1: that's "init 0" or "shutdown -h $(sometime)".
> Q2: How can I prevent non privileged users from doing a shutdown or
> restart
Others have already answered pretty thoroughly, but my answer:
A2: Have no users on the system that accept interactive logins during
normal operation, from anywhere. Have no processes that can be tricked
into running arbitrary commands, particularly as UID0.
Cheers,
Lance Dryden
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