Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Darren Harmon <darrenharmon1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi;

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 20:30, Kevin wrote:
> Er... in YaST2, where do I look to turn off permission
> checking?  I started SysConfig and browsed for a
> while, but didn't recognize it.

It is in YaST2's SysConfig module. You can find it in Base-Administration, 
SuSEconfig, check_permissions.

> Can you set it just for permission CHECKING and
> reporting, but not for changing? 

There is a warn setting, yes.

> Is there a file/database kept, of the "proper" permissions
> for each file?  Or is it figured out by some sort of
> heuristic?

Not sure about this. As mentioned in the text for check_permissions in YaST2, 
SuSEconfig uses the program chkstat, which looks at /etc/permissions. This 
may just be a list of default permissions set by the SuSE 8.0 team (Maybe if 
I edit it I can change the default permission for KwinTV and still have 
SuSEconfig set to check permissions).

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Darren Harmon
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