On 9 Nov 2001 at 17:02, Kevin Martin wrote:

From: Kevin Martin <KMartinxcaliber.com>
To: focus-mssecurityfocus.com
Subject: Can you disable shutdown but not restart?
Date sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:02:39 -0600

> Is there a registry setting or policy that can be set to remove the ability
> of users to do a shutdown of their system while still enabling them to do a
> restart? This would keep users from "stopping" their machines and
> disabling the ability of automated update technology to do updates overnight
> while still giving them the ability to do a reboot when things get funky on
> their workstation. This is in a combined NT4/Win2k/WinXP environment. I'm
> already planning on disabling the power button so hard powering down the box
> will be disabled (except for pulling the plug) so this is the last piece of
> the puzzle.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin Martin kmartinxcaliber.com
> Stafford Trading Inc. Chief Security Officer
> Chicago, IL 60604 TEL +1-312.356.4849
> 230 S. LaSalle, Ste. 688
>

Hi Kevin and all

You might want to try a resource hacking tool and hide the buttons or options to shutdown the system. have a look at:

http://rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker/

It will give you the opportunity to do all sorts of modifications to system dlls and executables. Given that there are a number of ways to shutdown a system, I doubt you'll
find an easy way around your challenge.

Also note that if you modify a system file under Win2K, you will also have to modify the file in the file protection cache, otherwise it will be restored on reboot to the original
(IIRC).

Cheers

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