I've checked the most annoying bug list, and I may have missed it, but I ran across something which is kind of scary to me. Now, I have been off of windows for three years now, but I still can't seem to shake the paranoia that OS instills in its users. I, a simple, end user, really don't have the expertise to explain as to what caused this bug so I will explain the entire series of events which brought me up to me discovering the bug, a bug which caused my user desktop to act as if I was logged in as ROOT!...please bare with me it is quite long...I hope not to annoy any power users.
Ok let me give you some background, my wife bought me an HP pavillion dv6208nr a few months back, I never really used it, and maybe on the fourth time I booted it I noticed that the thing couldn't even complete the most basic of tasks without seizing, even configuring the darn thing for performance didn't show much of an improvement. Of course, not being one addicted to redmond's code I installed openSuSE 10.2 and everything worked on it just fine, I of course had to do the usual, installing video drivers (nvidia) libdvdcss, getting the wireless (802.11 broadcom) up and running.
Ok first I updated via wired lan, once finished, I used ndiswrapper to get the modem going, for some reason the xp driver .inf file came up as invalid driver when doing it via command line. So before I went to fwcutter, I had seen an app in my smart channels called dnisinstall, well I ran it, a prompt (non system) came up asking for my root, then it ran a prerequisite check before connecting to the internet and downloading whatever it was that I seemed to need (perhaps firmware as is the case with fwcutter or most recent version of ndiswrapper) either way, other than zen or smart, rkhunter, etc I NEVER connect to the net while in root...I have no idea what it ndisinstall downloaded.
Ok so that fails to get my wireless up, I run -e with ndiswrapper and do the command line again and it worked!! I am online wirelessly now.
Next, it was time for the libdvdcss and nvidia drivers, I had them on a memory stick so I moved them to my home directory and double clicked them to get the the option of installing with yast, I installed all three one by one. Then when launching kaffiene I noticed I forgot to install the win32 codecs so off to smart i go...I click on smart and it starts with no root prompt. I then click on yast and again, no root prompt. I click on console and type rkhunter, it runs, I type SuSEconfig and it runs!! It was halloween so maybe my SuSE was actually a were-linspire distro and the full moon caused it to change...
sorry poor humor there. but there it is, up until a reboot the thing acted as if I was in root!! of course I was able to duplicate the bug by installing an rpm via yast.
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