Remote shutdown vulnerability ?

[Freddie Ruddick]

On 02/12/06, Mike Zeinz <m0reader at gmail.com> 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?


Hi Mike,

I believe that this is standard behaviour on almost all unix/linux
machines. The default behaviour of shutdown is to take the machine
into runlevel 1, single user "System Maintainance" mode.

If you want the box to power down, you need to add the -h flag to
shutdown. To reboot, add -r.

HTH

Freddie :)