SHUTDOWN on AIX 3.1

[Ronald S Woan]

In article <1991Apr17.130522.26957 at uvm.edu> moore at emily.uvm.edu (Bryan Moore) writes:
>I would like to give users on my system the ability to do a
>'shutdown' from a $ prompt. I've tried setting up a script
>which sets the users id to root and group id to system, and
>then calls shutdown, but thi doesn't work. Can someone let
>me know if this is possible, and if so how?

Offhand, I seem to recall that setuid shell scripts are not allowed
(won't function) under AIX 3.1 for security reasons, so you'll have to
write a C (or whatever) wrapper around it.

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