Re: Group ID

[Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com>]

On Thursday, February 20, 2003 08:14, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:04:25AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
> >>If i had to regenerate a config file that a program uses, is it
> >> possible to detect what GID the program uses if it is set from
> >> within the program?
> >
> >Any particular reason it can't just be root:root -rw-r--r-- (if it's
> > in /etc) or owned by you (if it's in your home directory)? That's
> > what most configuration files are.
>
> I set them all to my own user:group, but mozilla seems to have
> some 'stuck' settings. I found a useful command is:
>   ps -eo pid,user,euser,fuser,group,egroup,fgroup,cmd

Ah!  So you're trying to set the correct permissions on the Mozilla 
configuration files!

The first thing to learn is it's best not to change permissions on files 
you didn't create. ;-)

Why not start a new Mozilla session with "mozilla -ProfileManager", 
create a new profile, and compare permissions?

-- 
Michael Wardle
Adacel Technologies