Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-06-01 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
-rwsr-sr-x1 root root 7828 Apr 28 11:23 X The 's' is a 'stickybit', right? No. ,[ (coreutils)What information is listed ] | The permissions listed are similar to symbolic mode specifications | (*note Symbolic Modes::). But `ls' combines multiple bits into th

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Roland McGrath
> Ron Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > -rwsr-sr-x1 root root 7828 Apr 28 11:23 X > > The 's' is a 'stickybit', right? Is this something Hurd needs? No, it's the setuid and setgid bits. `t' would be the sticky bits.

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:51:02AM -0700, Ron Graves wrote: > On Monday 31 May 2004 12:40, Michael Banck wrote: > > > > Do you (or anybody else) remember being asked this question during the > > initial X install? If not, it might have a low debconf priority. > > > I don't remember being asked, b

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Ron Graves
On Monday 31 May 2004 12:40, Michael Banck wrote: > Do you (or anybody else) remember being asked this question during the > initial X install? If not, it might have a low debconf priority. > I don't remember being asked, but I set my question priority to 'medium.' Ron

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:11:52AM -0700, Ron Graves wrote: > As for reconfigure xserver-common as 'anybody' it worked. I wonder > why the 'Console Users Only' didn't? Thanks! Good question. Perhaps something with PAM or so which we don't support? I've no clue about this stuff. Do you (or anyb

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Ron Graves
> The permission are identical on my GNU/Linux partition, btw: Yes, I lied. Upon closer inspection the GNU/Linux was the same on mine too. As for reconfigure xserver-common as 'anybody' it worked. I wonder why the 'Console Users Only' didn't? Thanks! Any ideas on the /sbin/runlevel? Ron

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:28:24AM -0700, Ron Graves wrote: > -rwsr-sr-x1 root root 7828 Apr 28 11:23 X > The 's' is a 'stickybit', right? I think it's rather the suid bit. stickybit is 't', AFAIK. The permission are identical on my GNU/Linux partition, btw: -rwsr-sr-x1 roo

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Ron Graves
> Somebody reported success with 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common' and > changing it to 'anybody'. Don't know about the security implications of > this though. I haven't tried that yet. So, I will do it now. Ron

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Ron Graves
> More helpful would be to know what the errors are that you get when > you run startx. start of error quote: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 1073741826): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 1073

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ron Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Still, why would you want to turn it off, since we may in the future > > take it as some kind of VM preferencing hint? > > I can't 'startx' as an unprivileged user. Not knowing the purpose > of 's', and comparing permissions of my working Debian GNU/Lin

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:46:45AM -0700, Ron Graves wrote: > However, it seems that every other aspect is properly set. I think I > will just stop wasting time and settle on the console. Somebody reported success with 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common' and changing it to 'anybody'. Don't know abou

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ron Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -rwsr-sr-x1 root root 7828 Apr 28 11:23 X > The 's' is a 'stickybit', right? Is this something Hurd needs? Can I chmod > +x X, without causing any grief. Right now it's ignored, but we may well in the future have VM handling pay attentio

Re: stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Ron Graves
> Still, why would you want to turn it off, since we may in the future > take it as some kind of VM preferencing hint? I can't 'startx' as an unprivileged user. Not knowing the purpose of 's', and comparing permissions of my working Debian GNU/Linux setup lead to the question. I gather the 's

stickybit & runlevel question

2004-05-31 Thread Ron Graves
-rwsr-sr-x1 root root 7828 Apr 28 11:23 X The 's' is a 'stickybit', right? Is this something Hurd needs? Can I chmod +x X, without causing any grief. When updating / installing certain packages, I get an error involving inetutils-inetd. One of the problems is that /sbin/runlev