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su File Viewer

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From: S.A.McIntyre
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:49
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Since I, like no doubt many others, don't like logging in as root more  
often than necessary for pure administration, I tend to get a bit behind  
in the installation of new software to go in /LocalApps or somewhere  
else...

Is there any way of launching a FileViewer with setuid root privs?  I am  
getting tired of su'ing and manually cp'ing things from a /tmp directory  
and checking permissions and so on.

If it doesn't exist, maybe it should.


Scott
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From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
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Subject: su File Viewer
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Date: 12 Nov 92 13:49:37 GMT
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