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Sindi Keesan

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Hi Steven,
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> I'm writing to the forum from
> the Toshiba T4800CT for the first time!
> I installed links2ssl from the
> addons but it never worked under
> JWM; there seems to be some
> kind of problem with the graphics
> ... but just now i tried it
> from the command line and it works fine!

Try
links2ssl -g
typed into an xterm (rxvt actually)

links2ssl without the -g gives you the nongraphical version.

> That is, as long as i'm logged in
> as root. I have also installed passwd
> and set up a 'regular user' account.
> I can surf the web OK with links2ssl,
> but i can't use it for a secure
> connection (such as this email,
> for example) from the 'regular user'
> account. I have to open links2ssl
> from the root account for it to
> work properly with SSL.
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> I see that part of the problem is
> that /etc/profile specifies
> export HOME=/root ... and of course, for
> the 'regular user' account i don't want
> HOME to be that. But how can i
> change it?

Check the BL archives for this discussion - search on "HOME=/root" .
I had the same problem with another text browser, lynx.
Perhaps Steven could add something to the password package install script.


> On other Linux distros which i use, i see
> that there is usually some 'if-then' code
> which checks to see who is logged in.
> But i'm not sure where that code should go in BL,
> because it seems that every Linux i use
> has the start-up procedure set up
> uniquely.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -monz
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