Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!icdoc!awm From: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX Remembered Message-ID: <442@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 21 Sep 88 18:38:05 GMT References: <1020003@hpisoa2.HP.COM> <9199@cup.portal.com> <1176@zippy.eecs.umich.edu> Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Lines: 22 In article <1176@zippy.eecs.umich.edu>, cja@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Charles J. Antonelli) writes: > >In article <9199@cup.portal.com> DGD@cup.portal.com writes: > >> An appropriate epitaph would be "cd /; rm -fr *;" > > > no, you want something like > % /etc/shutdown -h now Don't you mean: # /etc/shutdown -h now or have you chmod'ed your "shutdown" to run SUID(*) root? (now there's and idea... :-) Aled Morris systems programmer mail: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk | Department of Computing uucp: ..!ukc!icdoc!awm | Imperial College talk: 01-589-5111x5085 | 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ (*) The SUID bit is copyright AT&T in the USA and other countries :-)