Re: [ Michael Beattie ] Retract stupid question about linux-java - a permission issue

["Gregg G. Wonderly" <gregg@skymaster.c2-tech.com>]

>> To be honest  I must not really understand permission
>> the application appletviewer, which comes with a jdk is really a symlink to 
 a file
>> called
>> .java_wrapper
>> # ls -l .java_wrapper

.java_wrapper is a shell script.  setuid or setgid on a shell script may or
may not work depending on which shell you use and whether it is setuid to
root and knows how to manage its effective uid based on the protections of
the shell scripts it is executing.

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