Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!ficc!morrison From: morrison@ficc.UUCP (brad morrison XNX SE#) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Workstations: good reasons for owner root access Message-ID: <1274@ficc.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 88 18:33:11 GMT References: <8338@smoke.ARPA> <2757@bgsuvax.UUCP> <183@ndc.UUCP> Organization: Xenix/Unix Support Lines: 18 In article <183@ndc.UUCP>, sgf@ndc.UUCP (Fishman) writes: > I work on a diskless microVAX 2000, so I don't do my own system > administration, but I occasionally _must_ have su priviledge. > That happens when my system must be rebooted, so I have to do a > shutdown. Now, my system administrator _could_ walk around to > every uVax in the building (we don't have all that many), and > reboot them herself, but it's a lot easier for her to call me > (and the other VaxStation folks) and ask me to do it myself. > You could use a "shutdown" login, which could run the shutdown program as its "shell", with user id zero. The password could also be "shutdown". You could trap all of the interrupts, and even if someone was able to interrupt the program, all they'd get would be a login prompt. -- Brad Morrison Ferranti International Controls Corporation 12808 W. Airport Boulevard phone: (713) 274-5449 Sugar Land, TX 77478 UUCP: {uunet,academ!uhnix1,bellcore!tness1}!sugar!ficc!morrison