liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) (02/06/91)
In <1418@ucl-cs.uucp> J.Purchase@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jan Purchase) writes: >2) Similarly, some applications demand that associated data directories are >world writeable, ... Funny how all the screendump utilities try to write files in the top folder of the volume containing the system folder... Either you make / world writeable or you can't have screendumps as an ordinary mortal :-( >However it seems that set-gid bits *don't* work for Mac applications or >shell scripts (perhaps because they are not actually executed, but read into >/mac/bin/launch and /bin/sh respectively, which then executes). Are there >any other ways of doing this?? setgid/setuid doesn't work on shell scripts for very good security reasons. You should be able to make setgid work on Mac applications by putting the setgid on a suitably renamed version of launch and invoking "mylaunch macthing" but... it won't do you any good because the Mac applications won't be able to talk to the /dev/uinter0 device. -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk Queen Mary & Westfield College UUCP: liam@qmw-cs.UUCP Mile End Road AppleLink: UK0087 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Tel: 071-975 5250 (Fax: 081-980 6533)