wombat@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM (05/04/88)
It could be that emacs makes it more obvious when you've left /etc writable. Since it moves files around instead of directly writing into existing files, if the mode on /etc is 777 and the mode on /etc/passwd is 644, blindly typing 'emacs /etc/passwd' will show up the problem faster than 'vi /etc/passwd'. I remember being very surprised the first time this happened to me. "I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly. "That's not the answer to *every* problem in interpersonal relations," Cobb said. *Software*, Rudy Rucker Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!urbsdc!wombat, wombat@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM