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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Sindi wrote:
>
> > In BL2 I have chgrp but I STILL had to chmod o+w ttyp? and ptyp? in
> > order for rxvt to work as user.
>
> Hmmm. And you issued su user -c rxvt from a root terminal to test this? I
> don't know that I could help diagnose this, but I do know it works fine
> for me on my BL3 testbed.

If I first chmod o-w ?typ?, then user cannot open an rxvt as above.
I have rc.S set to chmod o+w ?typ? so if I would need to reboot after 
undoing that to do a real test.  But I know I had to add that line in 
order for Bl2 to let user start an rxvt.

> > I think you would still need to change a few things such as /tmp.
>
> True. But /tmp is the only thing I needed to change any permissions
> on--that for the sake of Sylpheed. But if other programs are installed,
> perhaps permissions on other directories would need ot be changed as well?

lynx also uses /tmp.  Opera might, I forget.

> James
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