Christian A. Ratliff wrote: > The [IRIX /usr/lib/desktop/permissions] hole comes from the authentication > being at the _dirview_ (an SGI directory browser) level. You can only pull > up 'permissions' when the menu item is not grayed out. If you run > 'permissions' by hand, you eliminate that check and have root access to the > permissions on an file. That isn't true here. If I run /usr/lib/desktop/permissions by hand and try to do something I shouldn't, it asks me for the root password. There may well be some way to trick it, but it's not that obvious (especially since I don't use the thing; it's the boring half of chmod). IRIX 5.3, if it matters. Cheers, -- | Dave Schweisguth Internet: dcs@proton.chem.yale.edu MIME spoken here | | Yale Depts. of MB&B & Chemistry Phone: 203-432-5208 Fax: 203-432-6144 | | For complying with the NJ Right To Know Act: Contents partially unknown. |