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From: israel@qantel.UUCP ( Renegade@ex2564)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Remote shutdown of PC 7300
Message-ID: <494@qantel.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 19:39:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: qantel.494
Posted: Thu Jul 25 19:39:08 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jul-85 14:52:18 EDT
Reply-To: israel@qantel.UUCP (Paul Israel - Renegade@ex2564)
Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA
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< Bug Poison >

   The user agent seems to give access to certain administrator functions
to normal users, such as mount, shutdown, lpstart, etc. The easiest
way to avoid these problems is to deactivate the user agent (ie, windowing
environment) to begin with, by deleting the 'exec ua' line from the
users' .profile file in their home directories. This will result in their
being put directly into the Bourne shell interface upon logging in.
In this environment, they would have to know the su password before
executing a shutdown.

  If this is not a viable alternative, then I suggest editing the menus
to disallow access to these commands (I don't happen to remember how this
is done off the top of my head, but do seem to recall reading that it is
indeed do-able.
-- 
Renegade of Berkeley
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