program to power down SV box

[Michael DeCorte]

hello,

I need to be able to powerdown a SV box (vme147).  There are 3 
requirements:

1) secure
2) gracefull
3) user will not be in / when doing this

its the last part the bothers me.  I think the following will work but
I wanted to know if anyone saw anything wrong.

user is running program abc and decides to quit and powerdown the system.
abc was not started from /.

abc exec' xyz

xyz is an suid root executable (not shell script) that :
        cd /
        while (prompted pw != root pw);
        exec /etc/init 0

I know that there isn't much here but I have bad dreams giving fsck
something to do :-)




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