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Re: New CI command:SHUTDOWN
From:
"Steve Dirickson (Volt)" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Steve Dirickson (Volt)
Date:
Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:13:57 -0700
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If you have malicious "knowledgeable users" and "crackers" that have
access to your system console, you have bigger problems than can be
helped by putting restrictions on a shutdown command.

> -----Original Message-----
> I think that we are treading on shakky ground here.  What if 
> a "knowledgeable"
> user, or a cracker, tries this command?  What safeguards 
> would be in place to
> ensure that a system is not shutdown by accident?

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