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- From: robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak)
- Subject: Re: su File Viewer
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.001020.18066@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:10:20 GMT
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- 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. :-)
-
- Anyone?
-
-
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- Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
- Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory
- MIT Workspace Error 1000
-