Re: NetInfoMgr -- could this be right?

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From: Alan M. Marcum
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 16:44

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Dick Silbar writes
> ...It appears that one can delete
> entries from the 'printers' domain (and perhaps other domains?) 
> WITHOUT having to give the root password.

This is correct.  Note the value of the _writers property in the
domain's /printers directory.  A star here means anyone may
write this directory.

See Chapter 14, "Security," in the 3.0 SysAdmin book (currently
available only on-line, in /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin;
Addison-Wesley is very close to publishing the book, at long
last).
--
Alan M. Marcum
NeXT Tech Support
amm@NeXT.COM

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Subject: Re: NetInfoMgr -- could this be right?
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