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- From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: su File Viewer
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.194525.29413@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:45:25 GMT
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- Allen B (ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
- : In article <BxLvqp.B5o@newcastle.ac.uk> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk writes:
- : >
- : > Since I, like no doubt many others, don't like logging in as root more
- : > often than necessary...
- : >
- : > Is there any way of launching a FileViewer with setuid root privs?
- : >
- : > If it doesn't exist, maybe it should.
- :
- : It certainly should. I might be the numero uno complainer
- : in this field. Everytime I get a program that tells me to
- : log in as root to install it, it drives me crazy. Since I
- : actually have installed >every< program in the Archives
- : on my machine at one time or another, this comes up a lot. :-)
- :
-
- While at times useful, it's not necessary. Open a Stuart window,
- su to root then type
- /NextAdmin/Installer.app/Installer &
- Installer comes up, as root, and you carry on. It is a nuisance.
-
- This is why I prefer programs that are tar.Z's or zips to those that
- are packages. I can start one or more gnutars or unzips and stuff in
- background. Installer has a raft of mouse clicks and dreck.
-
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