Shutdown NT 4.0 Wks via Perl script

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Gerald W. Carter wrote:

> Just ran across this and so am curious...
> 
> Server 	: Sun Sparc 10
> OS	: Solaris 2.5.1
> Samba	: 1.9.18alpha11
> 
> Client 	: NT 4.0 Wks w/SP3 ( vanilla install )
> 
> According to NTDOMAIN.txt...
> 
> The domain box should have two entries: the hostname and the SAMBA
> domain.
> Any local accounts are under the hostname domain, from which you will be
> able to shut down the machine etc.  At present, we do not specify that
> the NT user logging in is a member of any groups, so will have no
> priveleges, including the ability to shut down the machine [lkcl02nov97
> -
> done, as of samba-1.9.18alpha3!  see "domain admin/guest users" and
> "domain groups" parameters].
>  
> 
> A dump from testparm confirms that there should be no domain admins....
> 
>         domain groups = 
>         domain controller = 
>         domain admin users = 
>         domain guest users = 
> 
> However I was able to shutdown the workstation using the following line
> from a Perl script...
> 
> Win32::InitiateSystemShutdown( "MYPC", "Perl shutdown", 30, 1, 1 );
> 
> I was logged in as a normal user ( there was no local account either )
> with a normal smbpasswd entry.
> 
> The way I read the docs, this should not be possible.  Am I correct?

you are correct: the docs are wrong.  "domain guest users" do not have 
permission to shut down the machine.  ordinary and admin users do.

lukes