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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:39:13 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: window manager question 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001051435030.58511-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <87165.947082563@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

>Why not just have the scripts in your non-root home directory and have
>run them as UID 0 when you need to?  They don't have to be in root nor
>toor's home directory for root/toor to run them.

To make sure i have this right...
i can use chown then chmod to do this, right?

>Make toor's home directory the same as root's and work on minimizing
>writes into the root directory some other way.

So basically i can leave toor and root alone, with the only change to toor
being the shell.  And i only should 'su' to install remove packages?  I
guess that means my kernel compilation and cvsup scripts can be set to run
as root as well, then?


-=> jm <=-






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