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Re: who issued the shutdown command?

From Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: who issued the shutdown command?
Date 2011-05-06 10:48 -0400
Organization National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.64.1105061045300.15316@darkstar.example.net> (permalink)
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On Fri, 6 May 2011, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:

> On 05/06/2011 05:51 PM, DenverD wrote:
>> On 05/04/2011 10:32 PM, Todd wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> In /var/log/messages, I have:
>>> 
>>> May 4 08:01:11 server shutdown[10435]: shutting down for system reboot
>>> 
>>> "last" shows everyone logged out at the time.
>>> 
>>> Question: who done it?
>> 
>> the one with the root password!
>
> On many/most systems an ACPI daemon can also run script (which might invoke 
> shutdown command) on press of power of/off button :P
>
The problem with that is, there's no way of knowing who did it then.

Since the original question seemed reasonable, "the one with the root 
password" is the obvious answer. No other user can do it unless something 
odd has been set up.

ONce talk begins of physical access, then there's no trace unless someone 
has security cameras or does fingerprints on the button.

   Michael

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who issued the shutdown command? Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-04 13:32 -0700
  Re: who issued the shutdown command? Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2011-05-04 16:41 -0400
    Re: who issued the shutdown command? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-05-04 23:40 +0100
      Re: who issued the shutdown command? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2011-05-04 17:03 -0700
  Re: who issued the shutdown command? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-05-04 22:36 +0000
  Re: who issued the shutdown command? DenverD <spam.trap@SOMEwhere.dk> - 2011-05-06 14:21 +0200
    Re: who issued the shutdown command? Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@anu.homelinux.net> - 2011-05-06 20:01 +0530
      Re: who issued the shutdown command? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-05-06 10:48 -0400
        Re: who issued the shutdown command? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-06 16:28 +0100
        Re: who issued the shutdown command? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-05-06 16:54 +0000
          Re: who issued the shutdown command? Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-06 13:53 -0700
          Re: who issued the shutdown command? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-07 03:24 +0000
          Re: who issued the shutdown command? GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-05-07 15:43 -0400

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