Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!larry!cathy From: cathy@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Cathy Accettura) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: opser on a workstation Keywords: operator opser workstation Message-ID: <704@larry.sal.wisc.edu> Date: 11 Aug 89 17:12:15 GMT Organization: Space Astronomy Lab, Madison WI Lines: 19 I have a Vaxstation 3100 running Ultrix-32 V3.0 (Rev 64) UWS V2.0. I want to login as operator to shut the system down without becoming root and doing a shutdown. I tried login in as operator and typing the operator passwd. After a minute of turning my screen to gray and giving me a pointer it returns me to the login screen again. I read in the release notes for version 3.1 that you can't do this so I did what they suggested, I logged in as me and then su to operator as operator I typed s for shudown and it said I have to this from the console. I was working directly on the workstation. I have tried this on a couple of other vaxstations and get the same problem. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Cathy Accettura Space Astronomy Lab cathy@larry.sal.wisc.edu