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What's a "stiffy" drive?
Oh, i once got this problem, similar one, and i found that xconsole or 
some other x app wasn't setuid, so i chmod 4755 it and it's fine.

Ivan

On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Greg Lehey wrote:

> >
> >>>>>> "Robin" == Robin Lunn <robin@is.co.za> writes:
> >
> >     Robin> As an "operator" you can access the stiffy drive
> >
> > The WHAT?!?  I think this might have implications with the
> > communications decency act ...
> 
> Of course.  You won't get any decent communications with a stiffy (or
> with a floppy, for that matter).
>