Shanta McBain wrote: > Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > I have a funny nestcape problem on my home machine. i installed netscape > > as root and have two accounts (one me and the other my wife's). As me > > (daniel) I can run netscape without problem, but I cannot run netscape as > > root nor can my wife run it as all. > > The Netscape program has an configuration file that has root access by > default to No > you can reverse this but as Andrei said in his reply this is a breach of > security. Why > netscape has a problem and the rest of the options don't I don't know. Just > what the > problem is would also be of interest > > > > > I have tried to remove all reference of netscape from my wife's account > > but it still does not work. Same for root. > > One may have to set a switch in the Netscape config file to allow all users > to have > rights to the program. > > Shanta > > --
One reason Netscape run as root might be dangerous is that Netscape is JAVA aware. (Run a search on "hostile applets") That's the main reason I've left the config default alone. Steve
