On 10/28/2014 05:30 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
Thus, if you suid the "/usr/bin/Xorg" via a single character edit in a single line in the single file /etc/permissions.local, you get it working. Simple! ;-)
No that will NOT work. You have to at least manually chmod the binary for starters and then wing it from there.,
I think you don't understand the purpose of the /etc/permissions.local file. Try reading the man page for 'chkstat' . Perhaps your problem is that you've made arbitrary changes - "winging it" - and have messed up many things. This is one reason I favour administration by defining a STATE you want the system to be in. We have the tools to make sure that's consistent and sensible -- chkstat being one. Being able to just arbitrarily run any procedure at any time disrupts the consistency and integrity of the system so things break and misbehave. If Linux is to be a serious contender for the Big machine/Big Business than such arbitrariness and lack of integrity in system administration cannot be allowed. Its OK for home users playing with a non-critical system to hack around and wing things. Note I say 'non-critical'. Once the system becomes, for example, the archive/repository for family photos and the movies of the kids growing up and the last messages from Greatgran before she died, then it too and its backups are critical. -- If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either case you are right. - Henry Ford -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org