Re: user perms
On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 12:22:05 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 19:03:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> > On 6/13/22 14:36, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >>
> > > I appear as user 1000 seem to be stuck behind some sort of a >>
> > permissions wall. > > SHOW. US.
> >
> > I got tired of fighting with it Greg, so I did install #32 and installed
> > gnome_desktop (that was new) and xfce4 during the install, and
> > now things including the screen colors are back to normal,
> >
> > I've installed the brother printers and scanner drivers and I can modify t
> > them by the usual rules. I also set a root pw in addition to adding myself
> > to /etc/group in the appropriate places. I created an /sshnet tree with the
> > other 5 machines here, did a root chown -R me:me on that path and just now
> > mounted all of them as me, so I own the path to me on the other 5 machines.
>
> "adding myself to /etc/group in the appropriate places" sounds just
> like the sort of thing that might have caused /etc/passwd to become
> screwed up in installation #31.
"...appropriate places" is about as fuzzy as it gets. The user appears
to have been put is group lp. This is completely unwanted as it opens
up a security hole. Thank goodness the OP is not managing my machines
(or my TV reception capabilities :) ).
--
Brian.
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