  It was recently demonstrated that static, resistive, magnetohydrodynamic
equilibria, in the presence of spatially-uniform electrical conductivity, do
not exist in a torus under a standard set of assumed symmetries and boundary
conditions. The difficulty, which goes away in the ``periodic straight cylinder
approximation,'' is associated with the necessarily non-vanishing character of
the curl of the Lorentz force, j x B. Here, we ask if there exists a spatial
profile of electrical conductivity that permits the existence of zero-flow,
axisymmetric r esistive equilibria in a torus, and answer the question in the
affirmative. However, the physical properties of the conductivity profile are
unusual (the conductivity cannot be constant on a magnetic surface, for
example) and whether such equilibria are to be considered physically possible
remains an open question.
