shull@SCROLLS.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU (Christopher E. Shull) (09/20/88)
In several recent articles folks have carried on about the need to
secure the SHUT command. I disagree. I have only a small network of
10 nodes (soon to be 17), and the work habits of the users require the
availability of SHUT. I particular, my department chairman is bothered
by the noise from his DN3000, so he SHUTs it down and turns it off when
he is hosting a meeting or thinking. This works out very well, but it
would not if he had to log in as root in order to SHUT.
An alternate approach suggests itself from the Apollo installation
documentation (circa SR 9.7). In said documentation, there is the concept
of a node administrator. If only this person (and the root) could SHUT,
I would be happy.
-Chris
Christopher E. Shull
Decision Sciences Department
The Wharton School shull@wharton.upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania shull@scrolls.wharton.upenn.edu
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 215/898-5930
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------cantrell@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Keith Cantrell) (09/21/88)
Why don't they support a command like "shut -off", and after this has been done only root could do a "shut -on"? Just an idea.