Re: Permissions Question
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On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:43:48AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:34:03 -0400
> Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a
> > > regular user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular
> > > user to open a console window. If, in the console window I become root,
> > > then as root I can successfully start and user both iceape and
> > > openoffice. I need to alter the permissions so a regular use can use
> > > these programs and root is not allowed to access the internet from
> > > iceape but I haven't found the proper way to do this.
> > >
> > > Tom George
> > >
> >
> > Check permissions on your /usr/bin folder, and make sure that the
> > executables didn't end up in /usr/sbin
>
> Even if they ended up in sbin, he'd be able to run them; they just
> wouldn't be in his default path, which doesn't seem to be his problem.
>
> Celejar
>
That's true. Personally I would just apt-get install --reinstall all
of the packages that are giving you trouble, and see if that helps.
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