Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,

[ I take it from your Reply-To in your messages that you _want_ to 
receive direct replies to your list postings, right? ]


On Monday 14 November 2005 07:59, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 14 November 2005 10:43 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have VMware installed, and it makes its user start-up
> > binary, /usr/bin/vmware, setuid root. Something in my system thinks
> > it knows better and keeps taking away public read and execute
> > permission on this file. I'm finding this annoying and tedious to
> > keep resetting.
> >
> > Does anyone know what software might be doing this? I run rkhunter
> > and secchk with their default configuration and on their default
> > cron-driven schedules.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Randall Schulz
>
> Something in /etc/permissions?   or /etc/permissions.d ??
>
> I run vmware and don't have that problem.   YMMV

Is your /usr/bin/vmware setuid root? Which version of VMware are you 
running?

I think I might have made /usr/bin/vmware setuid root so I could access 
raw disks without having to change _their_ modes.


Randall Schulz