[CentOS] How to restrict reboot/poweroff from non-admins?
Phil Schaffner
Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.govWed Mar 28 14:03:15 UTC 2012
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Timo Neuvonen wrote on 03/28/2012 09:17 AM: > I just noticed that CentOS (6.2) by default allows any user to > reboot/poweroff system without any admin rights, or without any further > questions, if using commands 'reboot' or 'poweroff'. But 'shutdown' still > requires admin rights. > > What is the preferred way to restrict any regular user from rebooting / > powering off the system (by accident)? > > IMHO, sudo should be required for this purpose (at least in a system with > shared remote access from multiple users, single-user laptops etc may be a > different case) > OUCH! This seems to qualify as a CentOS bug. I confirm that a normal user can reboot or poweroff the system on 6.2. On RHEL: $ rpm -qa redhat-release\* redhat-release-server-6Server-6.2.0.3.el6.x86_64 $ poweroff poweroff: Need to be root $ reboot reboot: Need to be root Phil
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