Ward_Travis@TRANSARC.COM (05/24/91)
Has anyone else had the following problem? I decided that, with the vacation
weekend coming up, I'd shut down my NeXT but have it power up in time
to poll my UUCP link before I got home Monday night. Mainly, I wanted
to do this to allow the disk not to be spinning during the predicted
thunderstorms here -- I won't be there to turn it off myself.
Logged in directly as root, I cannot "find" the mode button that
makes the Power selection in Preferences slip between "Startup Device"
and "Power".
I have "secured" the system by following the directions in the docset,
as well as zipping along and doing finds, etc. to confirm the basics.
One tsep in the docset chapter on Security was to remove the set{u,g}id
from the Preferences application. I tried setting it back, and that does not
correct the problem. The button is gone, clicking where it should be does
nothing (not that I expected it to be invisible or anything).
My guess is that Preferences is not convinced that it is really
running as a superuser. The file is protected 6755 and is user root,
group wheel. This jives with the documents. It must be sensitive
to some other combination of file system / system configuration
parameters. So, what are they?
NeXT 2.1, MeXTstation, running UUCP links, altered only as per the
'Security' chapter, booting from the factory-installed SCSI drive.
Send me mail and I'll repost the answer; that will reduce the bandwidth
use on this newsgroup.
-wt ward travis halfdome!travis@orac.pgh.pa.us (NeXTmail)
travis@transarc.com (ascii mail)