🚀 go-pugleaf

Allen B (ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
: In article <BxLvqp.B5o@newcastle.ac.uk> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk writes:
: > 
: > Since I, like no doubt many others, don't like logging in as root more  
: > often than necessary...
: > 
: > Is there any way of launching a FileViewer with setuid root privs?
: > 
: > If it doesn't exist, maybe it should.
: 
: It certainly should.  I might be the numero uno complainer
: in this field.  Everytime I get a program that tells me to
: log in as root to install it, it drives me crazy.  Since I
: actually have installed >every< program in the Archives
: on my machine at one time or another, this comes up a lot. :-)
: 

While at times useful, it's not necessary.  Open a Stuart window,
su to root then type
/NextAdmin/Installer.app/Installer &
Installer comes up, as root, and you carry on.  It is a nuisance.

This is why I prefer programs that are tar.Z's or zips to those that
are packages.  I can start one or more gnutars or unzips and stuff in
background.  Installer has a raft of mouse clicks and dreck.
   
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