Re: Permissions Question
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Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 05:19:29PM -0700, Jeff D wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:17:05AM -0700, Jeff D wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, 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
>>>>>
>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>
>>>> This sounds kind of odd .. How are you getting into X? You really
>>>> shouldnt have to modify permissions to run these apps. Why did you have
>>>> to modify permissions to start a console window?
>>>>
>>> I am ashamed to say I don't remember exactly. I think the sequence was
>>> that first X wouldn't start. Checking .mozilla on my other box I saw the
>>> owners were tom:tom so I set the .mozilla owners on the new box to
>>> tom:tom. I probably next did apt-get install icewm and the
>>> /etc/init.d/gdm restart. Then I was into X but the apps didn't work. I
>>> changed some of the permissions to 744 - again matching my other box -
>>> and then could open the console window but the other apps aborted with
>>> startup errors. I tried strace -e trace=open and saw a lot of failures
>>> but on my old box I also saw many failures so I counldn't pinpoint any
>>> problem. At this point I tried opening the apps from the console window
>>> as root and they started with no problems.
>>>
>>> To keep all the information in one posting I will also respond to other
>>> replies.
>>>
>>> First, both iceape and openoffice are in /usr/bin. openoffice is
>>> a softlink to ooo-wrapper. All of these have rwxr-xr-x
>>> permissions and are owned by root:root.
>>>
>>> Second, I have tried apt-get --reinstall install openoffice.org
>>> to no effect.
>>>
>>> A final note: I tried starting gnome instead of icewm it started but
>>> with limited capabilities - I could not access any apps.
>>>
>>> Tom
>> So, gdm is not starting at boot? Are you starting that as root? What
>> happens if you run startx from the command line, as tom, not root? It
>> sounds like you dont have the proper permissions to connect to the X
>> server.
>>
> I rebooted and gdm starts, opens icewm with aforementioned problems.
>
> I can only stop gdm as root.
>
> If I run startx as tom it starts gdm and opens icewm with the same
> problems. If I run startx as root it opens gnome and if I try to switch
> users to tom its a no-op, the desktop remains open with root as the
> user.
Did you have another distribution on your system and keep your /home
from it? It sounds to me like your /home has permission problems. That
can happen if your userid doesn't match.
Joe
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