From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 6:39:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0341531B for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 06:39:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 125raj-000EVh-00; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:39:13 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA58678; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:39:13 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:39:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question In-Reply-To: <87165.947082563@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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