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| From time to time i can't mount floppies (as a regular user) because
| something (yast?? suseconfig??) is removing the suid bit from mount. Who
is
| doing it and how can i stop him doing it? (i have security setting on
secure
| and i would prefer to leave it that way)
When SuSEconfig is run, by default it checks the permissions & ownership of
various files listed in the files /etc/permissions*. If the
permissions/ownership of any file are different from that file's listing in
the relevant /etc/permissions* file(s), the the permissions/ownership of the
file will be changed to whatever the listing in the relevant
/etc/permissions* file(s) dictate(s).
The actual /etc/permissions* file(s) that is/are used depends on your
config; by default SuSEconfig uses both /etc/permissions.easy and
/etc/permissions.local.
If you would like SuSEconfig to do these permissions/ownership checks, you
will need to change the line for /bin/mount (preferably in all of the
/etc/permissions* files). The format of the /etc/permissions* files is
simple; take a look at the comment at the top of /etc/permissions.local
(PS -- these files are actually use by chkstat, a cute little perl script)
If you do NOT want SuSEconfig to do these checks, set CHECK_PERMISSIONS to
"no" in /etc/rc.config.
| How can i allow remote users login to the server through X (xdm) but
| without starting xfree on the machine. I mean i want users to login
through
| X remotely but not locally.
Run xdm. The default SuSE xdm config (@ least in 6.2) is a little shaky but
it will be sufficient to get you up and running. If you want to tweak the
xdm configuration there will be a lot of man page reading. :)
To start xdm, just type ``rcxdm start'' as root. Remote users can then
connect to your box; if they are running Linux w/ XFree86, they can do
something like ``Xwrapper -query your.xdm.box''.
(If you have KDE installed you'll probably wind up running kdm when you do
``rcxdm start''; I don't use KDE so I can't help ya there.)
| TIA.
|
Greetz,
k
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