[ILUG] Permissions Problem (I think)

[David O'Callaghan]

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Good Morning,

Now, I don't really regard myself as a newbie (you'll have to take my word
for this) but I did a stupid thing. I had just recompiled my kernel and
found that my serial ports were disabled. I solved that but while I was at
it I thought I might have a go making wvdial (the dialler that comes with
SuSE 6.1) accessible to my main user since it's a standalone machine and
I'm the only user. As a start I went to make the configuration file,
wvdial.conf, world read-writable. But by mistake I typed:

chmod 666 /etc/ wvdial.conf

So, basically I'd set the /etc/ directory to 666. Then I realised what I'd
done and instead of stopping there I went ahead and did:

chmod 600 /etc/

I realised that _this_ wasn't particularly clever either and tried:

chkstat -set /etc/permissions

but it only corrected the permissions for sendmail.cf, and I still get an
error from rc.config when it tries to generate a new sendmail.cf on startup.

Other problems are:

1. Logging on as "david" I get permission denied to /etc/profile, even
though it's set to 644.

2. Running startx as "david" I get problems with loading shared libraries,
libXmu.so.6 I think.

3. Trying to log in as "david" using kdm I just get kicked back to the kdm
login box. 

But basically everything works as root, but I don't want to do everything
as root.

Any suggestions?

Regards,

David



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