Remote shutdown vulnerability ?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday 02 December 2006 10:27, Mike Zeinz wrote:

>           What went wrong?
>             Did I shut down the machine incorrectly?
>             Is this a flaw? (...)
>             What else can originate this flaw?
>             How can I solve the problem?
>
man shutdown:

"Runlevel 0 is used to halt  the  system, runlevel  6 is used to reboot the 
system, and runlevel 1 is used to put to system into a state where 
administrative tasks can be performed; this is the default if neither the -h 
or -r flag is given to shutdown." 

The system is working as designed.  What you probably wanted was:

sudo shutdown -hP now

Scott K