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 <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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