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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: Another ... Suggestion for NeXT, Inc.
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Date: 1 May 91 20:30:35 GMT
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Do you *really* want yet another program (like the workspace manager!)
with the ability to launch root shells or applications?  Not me.  I
think there are too many suid-root programs on the machine already.

When I've had to do sys-admin type stuff on the NeXT that I can't do
from a shell prompt, I just su to root and launch the application from
the shell.  In my case, this is usually the Installer application.

In summary:

	% su
	Password: secretword
	# /NextApps/Installer.app/Installer &
	# exit
	%

This seems to work just fine.  I suppose that a simple shell script
could be written to accomodate the Foo.app style applications, but I
don't have to do this often enough to worry about.  If I'm going to be
doing lots of administrative work, I just log in as root; do it; and
log back out again.