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- From: johnsd2@lib102.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Need to convince boss 486's are *not* w
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- References: <1922@esl.ESL.COM>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:31:24 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article 1922@esl.ESL.COM, drm@esl.com (Don McGregor) writes:
- >In article <3gg359q@rpi.edu> johnsd2@vccnw04.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel
- >Norman Johnson) writes:
- >>
- >>This is a little inaccurate- this sort of stuff happens if you delete one
- >> file on the NeXT, from what I am hearing. And the NeXT does nothing
- >> to even warn you, never mind recover.
- >
- >The correct way to do this on the NeXT does not involve deleting any
- >files. You log in as root and type, in a terminal window,
-
- Ok. Im not sure why I said that actuall :/; I had been talking on email
- about that sort of thing and it just slipped in.. Hmm..
-
- >dwrite loginwindow ImageFile <path>
- >
- >Where <path> is the absolute pathname to the new tiff. This just resets a
- >default, and leaves all existing files alone.
-
- Absolute pathnames? Yech! :(
-
- What happens if you give it a pathname that is wrong, to a non-tiff
- file, to a corrupt tiff file, or to nothing?
-
- >You can't reset the login tiff unless you're root. It's assumed that if
- >you're root you know what you're doing; you can just as easily nuke sdmach
- >(system equivalent on the mac.)
-
- Gotch. This be good.
-
- >The existence of file permissions makes catastrophic file deletion errors
- >LESS likely, since most of the critical system files cannot be mucked with
- >by someone without root. So it is somewhat more difficult for a naive or
- >even malicious user to hose a system. Not to mention making life more
- >difficult for viri.
-
- All very good.
- ---
- - Dan Johnson
- And God said "Jeeze, this is dull"... and it *WAS* dull. Genesis 0:0
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