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- From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: su File Viewer
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.205703.1597@qb.rhein-main.de>
- Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
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- References: <1992Nov17.001020.18066@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 20:57:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.001020.18066@athena.mit.edu> robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak)
- writes:
- > In article <BxtDwG.4L7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen
- > B) writes:
- > > In article <BxLvqp.B5o@newcastle.ac.uk> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
- > writes:
- > > >
- > > > Is there any way of launching a FileViewer with setuid root privs?
- > > >
- > > > If it doesn't exist, maybe it should.
- > >
- > > It certainly should.
- >
- > O.K. I'm going to throw a little TNT onto this fire:
- >
- > Disclaimer: I am not responsible for anything you type into your machine.
- >
- > Try this (PLEASE do not do this as root):
- >
- > Type into a terminal window:
- >
- > /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/WM -NXAutoLaunch YES &
- >
- > I clipped this from a "ps ax" and added the "&" so that I could keep my
- > terminal window useful.
- >
- > This creates a new workspace on top of the old one (move it and see).
- > Except for moving or copying from the old workspace to the new one,
- > everything seems to work fine (you can still create multiple viewers,
- > etc.).
- >
- > So far, I can get out of it by choosing "logout" from either WorkSpace's
- > menu, which generates an error and logs you off ungracefully, or by doing
- > a "kill PID" which generates an error and logs you off ungracefully.
- > Neither is satisfactory.
- >
- > I checked the online docs with DL and found no mention of command-line
- > arguments for WM. Maybe there's some argument which will make it exit
- > gracefully when you hit logout without killing everything in sight.
- >
- > Maybe now that I've got people around the planet crashing their
- > Workspaces, someone who really knows will pipe up. :-)
-
- The next obvious thing to try would be to `kill -HUP <PID>` it.
- I'm not going to do it, though (got same serious work to do).
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)
-
- Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
- given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
- See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
- 80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.
-