From: unruh@invalid.ca
On 2013-05-02, Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:
> Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:
>> Jim Beard wrote:
>>> On 05/01/2013 09:54 AM, Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:
>>>> On this HP 6730b Laptop, I multi-boot
>>>> Win7/MD2009.1/MD2010.1/MD2012/MG2 and have my Home in a separate
>>>> mount (SD8) so that all the linux's can use it!
>>>>
>>>> Back on 16 Apr (my time), I started a thread called "Inode that
>>>> were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found", and from
>>>> those discussions, I fixed the problem and then I figured I'd
>>>> re-install my MD2009 system, without touching my other
>>>> installations or my Home set-up.
>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing I've done something wrong (see below) because,
>>>> previously, to connect to the internet I'd run Network Centre and
>>>> select my 3G Wireless connection then I'd open a terminal and
>>>> run, as user, a script written by my ISP to actually make the
>>>> connection. Since I fixed the previously mentioned problem, to
>>>> run my ISP's script I've had to SU in the terminal to be able to
>>>> run the script.
>>>
>>> ls -l /path/to/script
>
> ls -l /mnt/Games/Internet_Programs/Profile/Profile/Mail/mail.albury.net.au
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4050618 2013-05-01 23:54 Inbox*
That is not a path to the script unless you have seriously mislabeled
it. It is a path to a mail folder. What command did you run previously
to get connected. It surely was not Inbox.
>
> So that's as it should be, isn't it??
>
>>> Take a look at what the permissions are. You have have had the script
>>> set to run with setuserid/setgroupid to root, or perhaps the script was
>>> set to allow an ordinary user to run it.
Scripts should never be run suid root, in fact I believe bash disallows
it. You have to write a wrapper for the script which does and exec call
to run the script, and that wrapper you can make suid.
>>>
>>> man chmod
>>>
>>> The script also may be trying to run something with permissions limited
>>> to root. Check permissions if there are complaints about a command.
>>
>> I used to run the script just as User, so don't know why the permission
>> might have changed.
What was the name of the script you ran?
>>
>>>> *Current situation* When I re-installed MD2009, I had set it up
>>>> so that I got the little screen to select a User and enter a
>>>> password, but I think I just hit enter (or may have selected the
>>>> User but I didn't enter the password, I think), I then went into
>>>> MCC and stopped the need to select User and enter a password.
>>>
>>> IIRC, 2009 (and later) can be set up to log in one user automatically.
>>> I do not remember the details.
>>
>> Yes, it can, but (as usual) I stuffed up!
>>
>>>> By not entering User name and Password, am I effectively now
>>>> logged in as a "Guest" user?? And if so, is there a simple way to
No.
And yo should also get rid of that "guest" user anyway. It is a severe
security hole.
>>>> get me back as User, or do I re-install system again??
>>>
>>> Two commands, in a terminal. First:
>>>
>>> whoami
>>> who am i
>
> whoami shows me as daniel - correct
>
>>> Then, if needed,
>>>
>>> su - useryouwanttobe
>>> You should be prompted for the password if needed at this point.
>>>
>>> man su
>>> for more details.
>>>
>>>> (I have held off on fixing this (using my Win7 installation,
>>>> instead) as I waited for MG3 to be released in a day or two, but
>>>> now that it's release has been delayed to 18th May, I figured I'd
>>>> better try to fix my MD2009!!)
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> jim b.
>>
>> Thanks for the very quick response, Jim. I'll boot into MD2009 and see
>> if I can get responses for your other suggestions and post back in the
>> morning.
>>
>> Daniel
>
> So it seems (to me) that everything is as it should be, just that I
> don't have access to my SeaMonkey Suite (follow-on from Mozilla Suite)
> profile. Obviously, it needs to be able to write to the Profile, but
> cannot!!
>
> Daniel
>
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