Re: netscape 4.75 as root

2000-12-01 Thread Arlen Carlson
Try editing /etc/netscape4/config The line your looking for to enable root access is in there. On 01-Dec-2000 Joerg Johannes wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini schrieb: >> >> Hi! >> >> I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, >> whe

RE: Re: netscape 4.75 as root

2000-12-01 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
> Hi! > > I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, > when in the popup Window maker > desktop menu I choose apps->net->netscape nothing happens. As normal user > I can run netscape without > any problem. But not as root! > Any suggestion will be very appreciated. > Thanks! > >

Re: netscape 4.75 as root

2000-12-01 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thanks a lot to David, Joerg and Scott for illuminating me regarding to this. I don't need to run netscape from root at all. I only asked because I was thinking it was a problem with my netscape installation Thanks again! cheers Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netscape 4.75 as root

2000-12-01 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, raider wrote: > As David and Joerg told you that running as root appears to be a security risk > you could 1)Start a term window, 2) su a diff user, 3)cd to users dir, 4)start > netscape with "netscape". This would start netscape as the user you sued to > and > give you the ma

Re: netscape 4.75 as root

2000-12-01 Thread raider
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. > Marcelo As David and Joerg told you that running as root appears to be a security risk you could 1)Start a term window, 2) su a diff user, 3)cd to users dir, 4)start netsca

Re: netscape 4.75 as root

2000-12-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
Marcelo Chiapparini schrieb: > > Hi! > > I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, > when in the popup Window maker > desktop menu I choose apps->net->netscape nothing happens. As normal user > I can run netscape without > a

Re: netscape 4.75 as root

2000-12-01 Thread David Purton
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, > when in the popup Window maker > desktop menu I choose apps->net->netscape nothing happens. As normal user > I can run netscape withou

netscape 4.75 as root

2000-12-01 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, when in the popup Window maker desktop menu I choose apps->net->netscape nothing happens. As normal user I can run netscape without any problem. But not as root! Any suggestion will be very apprecia