Re: Gnome permissions

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:49:03PM -0800, Bruce McDonald wrote:
> Hello Bob
> 
> On 05-Feb-04, you wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Thank you for that.
> (As a bit of interesting or not.. information pam_timestamp_check was set to
> -rwxr-x---  and gnome-settings-daemon was set to -rwxr--x---)
> I have changed the settings as you said.
> 
> No complaints as it starts up now; however, I don't get the menu/toolbar at
> the bottom of the screen.  I have three icons at the top of the screen:
> User's Home, Start Here, and Trash.
> 
> I suppose I have to go through all the files that gnome uses and make sure
> the user read and execute bits are set.  If so, where can I find a listing
> of all the files?
> 
> I also find this message in the X-server log:
> Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> Any Ideas?
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Regards
> Bruce McDonald

I'd find out all your gnome packages:

  rpm -qa |fgrep gnome

then, one by one, run

  rpm -V <pkg_name>

That will verify ownership, checksum, perms, etc.  "man rpm" for more
info.

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