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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