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Re: SEUL: SEUL duplicating efforts?





On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
> > 
>   I remember on some older Unix systems, there was a shutdown user.  How
> about re-implementing that... it could run a process, that would check if
> there were users on the system, and shut it down cleanly if there weren't
> any?
> 
There's a big security flaw in having several people knowing the one
password though. You have a password that is "common knowledge". How about
a "shutdown" group ?

-- Donovan