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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Regarding multi-user setup in BL3.40
  • Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:13:22 +1200

Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> To run BL3 as user, in addition to deleting the line
> in /etc/profile, you also need to change permissions
> on devices ?ty* urandom null dsp* lp* (666)
> make /tmp o+rw
> Ditto for /download
> eznet needs to be suid and user-executable
> ppp-on and ppp-off need to be symlinked to some place
> on the path such as /usr/bin.
> And make Xvesa suid (or add a regular X with startx
> and Xwrapper
>
> Steven would you want to include the above changes
> in BL3.50

No.

> and add /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper (4960 bytes in BL2),
> and /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config

No.

> I have listed in one place what you need to do to BL3
> to make it work for 'user'.

Again (for the benefit of new users), the above changes
are completely unnecessary for BL3. Sindi is trying to
run BL3 as a non-root user (which I do not recommend).
BL3 works fine for root users (which is the default).

Cheers,
Steven




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