Re: Funny netscape problem (How to debug and solve)

[Steve <srgore@flex.net>]

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