Re: Fresh Moz1.7 inst. nogo for all but root

Thank you very much Darren,
  Strace really is my friend!  I found that mozilla could not write to
~/.mozilla.  The ownership of the directory was root:root.  I assume it was
created when I installed mozilla the first time using
sudo ./mozilla-installer.  Is that a bad way to install software?
Anyway I deleted ~/.mozilla, ran mozilla, and all's well.

Thanks again,
-pl

Darren Salt wrote:

> I demand that Paul Landauer may or may not have written...
> 
>> I've got a brand new PC, a fresh install of SuSe 9.1, and I've downloaded
>> and installed Mozilla 1.7.3.  I installed it to the default directory of
>> /usr/local/mozilla.
> 
> All well and good so far...
> 
>> My problem is that no user can run it but root.  I check the file rights,
>> comparing them to another computer I have, and the rights match.  I tried
>> doing a chmod -R 777 * in the mozilla directory, and had the same
>> results.
> 
> That's an *idiot* error. Do you *really* want any user to be able to
> modify these files?
> 
> (Bleating "but I'm the only user" doesn't count. It's still wide open to
> exploitation if, for example, something manages to get in via some
> remotely-accessible hole in some 'net-using application.)
> 
>> When I run mozilla from the command prompt logged in as non-root I am
>> simply returned to the command prompt with no error messages or anything.
> 
> 'strace' is your friend.
> 
>> Anyone got a clue?
> 
> More than you, it seems, judging by that idiot error above... :-|
>