Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!mitroo From: mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) Subject: Re: Another ... Suggestion for NeXT, Inc. Message-ID: <1991May2.022327.21060@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University References: <1991Apr29.082508.2376@wuphys.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 02:23:27 GMT Lines: 30 In article bb@math.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) writes: >In article <1991Apr29.082508.2376@wuphys.wustl.edu> >rdd@wuphys.wustl.edu (Rakhal D. Dave) writes: > >> What I'd like is to see an option in the user workspace menu, under >> tools maybe, called superuser. Choosing this option should cause the >> loginwindow to be displayed with root filled into the user field. On >> giving the password, without rearranging the workspace to match the >> root workspace and without halting any background processes it would >> be great to get all the root permissions to rearrange files. > >This is certainly do-able, but it strikes me as extremely messy and >very dangerous. Mostly I think you would contradict many designed-in >features of the "U*IX programming environment". What would you have a >program do that has already chosen what to do based on your userid? >Would you require code to be added to every U*IX program on the box to >check occassionally to see if its uid has been changed to root? The >idea of a big Frankenstein-style "Maintenance" switch is appealing, >but I cannot visualize how to do it cleanly. > Why not just have an selection in the Workspace in the "View" option for "New Viewer as user..." - just like opening up a New Viewer. After typing in the username and correct password, this would open a new File Viewer "owned" by that user. -- You are young, they are old Control is all they've got to give Just live how you want to live Tiny things that make you slave Like a chain, an anchor to the bed of the sea