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

I demand that Paul Landauer may or may not have written...

> 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? [...]

> Why so nasty dude? I deleted the directory after I did the chmod 777.

You should have said that earlier ;-\

> I know that you don't do that permanently. I was simply trying to eliminate
> user rights as the issue.

Being a *lot* more selective about which files to make world-writeable, or at
least writeable by some specific (non-root) user, would help a lot here.
Using a user ID which is reserved for this kind of thing helps even more: if
something *does* go seriously wrong, the _potential_ for damage is
significantly restricted.

>>> 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.

> Thanks for the strace, I'll read the man page.

> In the future if you feel the need to be nasty to someone without knowing
> them, please try some meditation, or maybe an enema.  At the very least
> take a deep breath and calm down.

OTOH, hopefully somebody else has learned something useful from that :-)

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