On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 03:11:40PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> Now, the only question is "Which package did this?"...
Back in the 1.1 or 1.2 days there was this magic bug where the
permissions on /tmp would get screwed up -- they would become
-rwxr-xr-x or something like that. A lot of apps don't handle
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Jeremy Morgan wrote:
> > What're the permissions on /? (ls -ld /)
>
> THANK YOU! It never even occured to me to check the permissions on /. But
> when I did, I found that only root, the owner, had permission to execute.
> Well I fixed that! And now everything seems to be wo
>
> What're the permissions on /? (ls -ld /)
>
>
THANK YOU! It never even occured to me to check the permissions on /. But
when I did, I found that only root, the owner, had permission to execute.
Well I fixed that! And now everything seems to be working. Gosh, am I glad.
Again, thanks guys. Y
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Jeremy Morgan wrote:
> I'm not sure if this has been posted before (I've looked but can't find
> anything.) I recently reinstalled debian because the only user that my
> system could use was root. When I tried to su to any user except root I
> would get error messages:
>
>
I ran potato for a long time without any problems, but I built a new
computer recently so I reinstalled everything. Then the problem arised.
When I couldn't fix it, I just reinstalled again--from scratch, a nice,
clean hard drive. Everything was fine with my 2.1 install, but when I
upgraded to po
Exactly how did you reinstall? Did you recreate everything, or are you
trying to reuse parts of a previous installation (e.g. /home)? Many
people, including me, have upgraded from Slink to Potato without such a
problem. You're not trying to use passwd and group files or /home
directories left ov
>
> What are your permissions for /bin/login?
>
> --
> Andrew
I've check the permissions on many files. I may've overlooked one, but here
is /bin/login.
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root40432 May 31 15:01 /bin/login
> Now this creates many problems except the obvious one (I have to use root
> always): no daemons or programs can run as another user--exim (mail), the
> cron.daily find (nobody), or any others. Before I continue, I'll list
> the
> permissions of certain files:
>
What are your permissions for
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