PI Problems
"John R. Anderson", VLD/ASB
jra at BRL.MIL
Fri Feb 23 01:05:48 AEST 1990
I have recently encountered two problems with our P.I.'s:
1. The other day, I changed the net addresses on our PI's, and
at the same time I happened to place a notice to the user's in /etc/motd.
Afterwards, "rcp" no longer worked correctly. I spent considerable time
checking and rechecking the addresses on all the machines. It was very
strange that I could do "rlogin", but not "rcp". Finally, I removed the
notice from "/etc/motd", and amazingly, "rcp" started workin again.
Imagine how frustrated one must be for "rcp doesn't work, so I'll empty
/etc/motd" to seem reasonable. My question is: How can I post a notice
to users of a PI without breaking "rcp"???
2. We would like users without "root" priviledges to be able to
do "shutdown". I assigned different passwords to the "root" and "sysadm"
accounts. When executing "System Shutdown" from the "System" menu, it
requests the "System Administrator" password. I took that to mean the
"sysadm" account, but in fact it will only accept the "root" password.
Is there a way to enable users without the "root" password to perform
a shutdown???
Thanks,
-John
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