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

Paul Landauer wrote:

> My problem is that no user can run it but root.

The installation instructions are clear: you need to *log in* as root 
(or "su -") before installing.

Also, when you log in like this, *your umask must be 022* (not 077 or 
something restrictive like that) - the resultant files and directories 
that you create must have world read permissions.

Then, still as a *logged in* root, you need to run mozilla once, to make 
  it set up all the chrome and other registries under /usr/local/wherever.

Finally, you log in as yourself and run mozilla - it works like a charm.

Given that you did a "chmod -R 777 *" in the mozilla directory, one 
other thing that could have gone wrong is some sort of corrupted mozilla 
chrome file.

Finally, do you have SELinux or something like that (secure linux with 
ACLs) enabled? Because I seriously doubt that the mozilla installation 
has been tested in such a scenario. You'd have to understand all about 
ACLs to give read and execute permissions to everyone under 
/usr/local/mozilla, in such a scenario. (chmod does not fix ACLs).