Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:47:30 -0500 From: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" <daleco@daleco.biz> To: "Andreas Ntaflos" <ant@overclockers.at>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: strange reboot, permissions of /sbin/reboot Message-ID: <021e01c274ad$9c817810$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <20021015230553.GA30542@Deadcell.ant>
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#ll /sbin/reboot -r-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel 227388 Sep 19 02:11 /sbin/reboot uname -sr FreeBSD 4.7-RC Interesting.... KDK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Ntaflos" <ant@overclockers.at> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 6:05 PM Subject: strange reboot, permissions of /sbin/reboot > Hello list, > Something strange just occured on a quite busy server running FreeBSD 4.6-RC > as of May 28. First, it seemed to have suddenly rebooted, but not by a > kernel trap or anything like it, the machine has been up for over 120 days, > running smoothly. We checked the logs, seeing that it was rebooted by an > ordinary user (all.log) which comes quite strange to me. > > # ls /sbin/reboot > -r-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel - 233708 Jan 19 2002 /sbin/reboot* > > First I thought someone messed up things bigtime, but checking my system > shows me the same permissions for /sbin/reboot, despite the fact that an > ordinary user on my system can NOT reboot or shutdown anything. We issued a > reboot again as a normal user, just to make sure it was not a mistake and it > did reboot again. It also seems that the first reboot was not initiated by a > user. I am a little confused...how could that happen? > > My questions are: what catches the execution of /sbin/reboot for normal > users and how could it happen that the normal user was not caught in that > case? Also, how come that the permissions on reboot and shutdown are the way > they are? > > Can someone point me to some relevant pieces of information? > > TIA > regards & good night > -- > Andreas "ant" Ntaflos > ant@overclockers.at > Vienna, AUSTRIA > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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