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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> 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).

I am setting up BL3 for friends to use online with Opera.  I have never 
had problems with security as root, but running as user makes it even more 
secure. Opera is supposedly rather buggy.  It also reduces the chance of 
them messing up the installation accidentally.  Load modules in rc, then 
login as user.

Steven, have you used Opera with BL3.50 as root?  When I tried, opera 
(8.5) could not find libX11.so.6.  I have both libc5 and libc6 (2.2.5). 
I tried with the additional X libraries from libc5 or libc6 (with one of 
them it could not find libXext either).  I probably did something dumb, 
but please check.

Is there a way to check for dependencies that a library has?

> Cheers,
> Steven