From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat May 1 3:23:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8F714FDF; Sat, 1 May 1999 03:22:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id MAA34995; Sat, 1 May 1999 12:22:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Cc: cpeterso@cs.washington.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/11406: shutdown does not halt the machine. shutdown logs into root account without password. References: <199904301847.LAA77707@freefall.freebsd.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 01 May 1999 12:22:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: 's message of "Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:47:05 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org writes: > shutdown without any arguments brings the system into single-user mode. > If you want it to halt, use "shutdown -h"; if you want it to reboot, use > "shutdown -r"; if you want it to ask for the root password before > going into single-user mode, edit /etc/ttys and change "secure" > to "insecure" on the line that starts "console". ...and in all cases, read the manual before you submit a problem report. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message