MATLAB shutdown on iOS: not super-user error

Hi everyone, I'm trying to run this code on the command window in order to shutdown the computer from MATLAB (I have a very long set of simulations and I would like to switch off my pc at the end):

system('shutdown -s')

The answer is:

shutdown: NOT super-user

Do you know how I can execute it? Or how to obtain the super-user privileges? (I have already tried to switch on the root privileges on iOS but the result was the same).

Thanks a lot, Antonio

Answer 1

[Carl]

You can try starting MATLAB with superuser privileges:

sudo ./matlab

and/or run the command with superuser privileges:

system('sudo shutdown -s')

You can refer to the following page for more information on the 'sudo' command.

https://superuser.com/questions/185441/what-does-the-sudo-command-do