On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:21:56PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Mike Fedyk writes: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:04:42PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > >> running things as root should never even be on your list of things to > >> try when something is broken. this isn't Windows NT. > > > > I agree with Ethan here. > > > > The most you should do is run the program as the user who owns the files. > > If that is root, then chown it to some other user. > > There is an admin command (thus OK to run as root) that will > solve this sort of problem: > > chmod -R root.root / ; chmod -R 6777 / > > Then just log in as a regular user.
You also are running it as SUID root and SGID, so there's NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE than logging in as root!!! I hope someone doesn't read the archives and take the above command to heart. I also hope you were kidding, for your own good. Mike
