Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:36:06 -0700 (PDT) From: cpeterso@cs.washington.edu To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/11406: shutdown does not halt the machine. shutdown logs into root account without password. Message-ID: <19990430183606.B8B1E15187@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 11406 >Category: bin >Synopsis: shutdown does not halt the machine. shutdown logs into root account without password. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Apr 30 11:40:01 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Christopher Peterson >Release: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: With a fresh installation of FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE on an IBM ThinkPad i1440 notebook, halt and reboot both shutdown the machine correctly. shutdown does not. myname# shutdown now Shutdown NOW! shutdown: [pid 242] myname# *** FINAL System shutdown message from root@myname.my.domain *** System going down immediately Apr 30 11:15:14 myname shutdown: shutdown by root: Apr 30 11:15:14 myname shutdown: shutdown by root: System shutdown time has arrived Shutting down daemon processes:. Apr 30 11:15:16 myname syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: If I use "shutdown +1" and immediately logout, I have the same problem. The machine is sitting at the login prompt when the shutdown time hits. The machine tries to shutdown, but then logs into the root account without a password! login: Apr 30 11:19:56 myname shutdown: shutdown by root: Shutting down daemon processes:. Apr 30 11:19:58 myname syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: # whoami root # >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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