I have just upgraded to v9.3 by doing a new installation and am have a question about permissions.
I have an application, Tinder, that has a default installation directory of /opt for the file tree and the need to install symlinks in /usr/local/bin. Naturally, all of these directories are root/root.
I want to run the installer as a user, not as root. I have one user on the system, computation which belongs to th dialout, video and users group. So I need to know how to set the permissions so that I can install, and run, tinker as the user computation. In general, when you install software into /opt or /usr/local you should be logged in as root. In some cases, you can install software into a directory
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 12:38 pm, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
tree owned by you. Part of this depends on how tinder is actually built.
Some software might want to set the setuid bit. In general if you install
as root, you should be able to run it as a regular user.
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Jerry Feldman