From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 15:00:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41A416A4C2 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B630A43FEA for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158])h7LLwYxk005723; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:58:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) h7LLxRUA095911; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:59:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: stan In-Reply-To: <20030821215827.GA7669@teddy.fas.com> References: <20030821010134.GA16183@teddy.fas.com> <1061432099.3847.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030821160937.GA686@teddy.fas.com> <1061482575.719.15.camel@gyros> <20030821215827.GA7669@teddy.fas.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-PD/jz/TfCZhtd26awfbB" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1061503233.719.93.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:00:33 +0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_XIMIAN autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Gnome2 config files weirdness X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:00:41 -0000 --=-PD/jz/TfCZhtd26awfbB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 21:58, stan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:16:15PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:09, stan wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:14:59PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 21:01, stan wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to get Gnome 2 up and running on a TABLE machine. I've= built the > > > > > gnome2 port, and I'm getting gdm2 as a login screen. I'm able to = log in as > > > > > a normal user. But when I change something. it thinks it's changi= ng roots > > > > > Gnome config. And indeed all changes I make are affecting all use= rs. > > > >=20 > > > > What changes? There are a lot of configurable options in GNOME. C= are > > > > to narrow it down a bit? > > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > additions to the panel. > >=20 > > Additions to the panel (like adding a launcher) only affect the current > > user. I've tested this. The only difference would be if you're runnin= g > > as root. Then, you can actually edit the /usr/X11R6/share/gnome space, > > and you could make global panel changes. You may want to verify you > > haven't set anything setuid to root, you're not actually logged in as > > root, and you don't have any write permissions under > > /usr/X11R6/share/gnome. > >=20 > We agree that is how things _should_ be. However it's not how things _are= _ > on this box. Actually I just started checking around, and when I log in a= s > myself (non root account), I have now found that if I bring up a terminal= , > and type "who am i" the answer is _root_!. So perhapsh this is a gdm bug? What version of gdm do you have installed? Are you using the default configuration? I use gdm on all my GNOME 2 machines (4 in all), and I have never seen this problem. Did you setuid root any of your gdm binaries? Joe >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-PD/jz/TfCZhtd26awfbB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/RUEBb2iPiv4Uz4cRAntYAJ46k54mDjXuq8jikp+p7oql3MSm2wCfedKa VxqICU++OcEqVtDAAqEBuG4= =t6xD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-PD/jz/TfCZhtd26awfbB--