[PLUG] Re: [PLUG] the ¡§halt¡¨ user, in mandrake7.

["Vale Kenny" <vkenny@quarterleaf.com>]

Ok, I'm not quite sure I understand the problem, so I'm going to give my 
understanding of the problem, and try to answer it.
there's a user whose shell is /sbin/halt.
you are trying to set this users password to <blank>
whenever you attempt to login as the user, the system reboots.

Ok, everytime you try to login as the user, the login process attempts 
to run the shell for the user logging in.  in this case the login 
process runs the /sbin/halt command, consequently rebooting the computer 
(try running the halt command as another user, it'll do the same thing). 
 
the purpose of this account is just that, to cause the system to reboot, 
so if the thing is totally locked, someone can login with the user halt, 
and bounce the system.  
The only way youre going to change the password of user halt will be to 
so as root, or ideally "sudo" .  At the prompt, type in 
passwd halt
and it will walk you through the process.  
really, I think this user is a bad idea altogether, but hey to each his 
own.

I hope this helps..
Peace,
Vale

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:48:17 ChinFung wrote:
> i am using linux mandrake 7 now, they have a build in user called ¡§halt¡¨,
> it¡¦s shell is setted to /sbin/halt, i used the command ¡§logout¡¨ to logout
> to the login process. i typed halt and i setted the password, to nothing so
> i press enter in password and the few sentense say something, i can¡¦t see
> what they are saying but i just can¡¦t shutdown the computer, that come back
> to the login process with the big duck on there and the pervious screen was
> cleared.  i think this question is a little bit stupied, but i am going to
> ask it anyway.
> 
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