Problems with A/UX File Permissions and Mac Applications

[William Roberts;]

In <1418 at ucl-cs.uucp> J.Purchase at 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.
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