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Re: netscape 4.75 as root



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,
>> 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!
>> 
>> 
>> Marcelo
>> _____________________
>> Marcelo Chiapparini
>> chiappa@centroin.com.br
>> 
> 
> If you type "netscape" in a console window as root, you will get the
> explanation: Netscape is not allowed to be run as root for security
> reasons.
> If you absolutely want to run netscape as root, you can edit the startup
> script for netscape. I don't know where it lies, but you can follow the
> symlinks from /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape until you find the script. In this
> script, change the line allow_root from "no" to "yes". 
> Hope this helps, sorry I'm not using my Debian box to read and write to
> this list, but a SUN-workstation at univerity, so I cannot look for the
> file names right now :-(
> 
> joerg
> 
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> 
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