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From: avie@wb1.cs.cmu.edu (Avadis Tevanian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: time zones
Keywords: time zone setting next bugs features
Message-ID: <5152@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 89 21:32:37 GMT
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Please people, stay calm...

Most people who buy a machine expect to be able to do whatever they want
with their machine, including setting the time and date.  If you need to
administer someone's machine for them, then they will live by your rules
(presumably).  If this is the case, then just turn off the setuid bit for
Preferences, for example.

This may disable some other features that you wanted a user to retain (from
Preferences), but most other things will still work (those that affect the
defaults database, for example).

-- 
Avadis Tevanian, Jr.    (Avie)
Manager, System Software Group / Chief Operating System Scientist
NeXT, Inc.
avie@cs.cmu.edu or avie@NeXT.com
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