Re: Gnome permissions

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:24:24AM -0800, Bruce McDonald wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I asked this question a while back and didn't get an answer.  Well, I have
> gotten back to trying to tackle the problem.  So to recap the issue:
>  
> > I switched my desktop to kde when after I installed Redhat 9, but I found
> > that Mozilla does not display properly in kde (colors display wrong). 
> When
> > I tried to switch back I found that I no longer had the permissions to run
> > gnome.  (or never did)  I get the background, the home, and start here
> > icons.... but the taskbar and all its relatives do not load.
> > Looking at the X-output I see  "Permission denied" on the
> > various files.
> 
> Specifically /sbin/pam_timestamp_check and gnome-settings-daemon.
> 
> > I checked the permissions on the gnome files in /usr/bin and found them to
> > be executable only to root and the group.  There is no read, write, or
> > execute permission set for the user.
> 
> Sooooo, anybody know what the permissions should be be set to?  I don't want
> to
> give generous permission to files that are not supposed to have it.

-r-s--x--x    1 root   root   7088 Feb 10  2003 /sbin/pam_timestamp_check
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   root 103256 Feb 24  2003 /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon

That first one will be accomplished with

  chmod 4511 /sbin/pam_timestamp_check

Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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